How To Write A Military Date

In communications messages, a appointment-time group (DTG) is a ready of characters, usually in a prescribed format, used to express the yr, the month, the day of the month, the hour of the 24-hour interval, the infinitesimal of the hour, and the time zone, if different from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).^{[ citation needed ]} The order in which these elements are presented may vary. The DTG is usually placed in the header of the message. One instance is "19:23 Jun xviii, 2022 (UTC)"; while some other instance is "19:23 xviii Jun 2022".

The DTG may signal either the date and time a message was dispatched past a transmitting station or the appointment and time it was handed into a transmission facility past a user or originator for dispatch.

The DTG may exist used as a message identifier if it is unique for each message.

Military Engagement Time Grouping [edit]

A form of DTG is used in the US Military'due south message traffic (a form of Automated Message Handling Organisation). In Us war machine letters and communications (e.one thousand., on maps showing troop movements) the format is DD HHMM (SS) Z MON YY. Although occasionally seen with spaces, it can besides be written as a single cord of characters. 3 different formats can be found:

DDHHMMSSZmmmYY - Full time (used for software timestamps)
DDHHMMZmmmYY - shortened time (used east.g. for timestamps manually written)
DDHHMMZ - brusk fourth dimension (e.chiliad. used for planning)

Z references the military identifier of time zone:

UTC-12: Y (e.chiliad., Fiji)
UTC-xi: X (American Samoa)
UTC-10: W (Honolulu, How-do-you-do)
UTC-9: 5 (Juneau, AK)
UTC-eight: U (PST, Los Angeles, CA)
UTC-7: T (MST, Denver, CO)
UTC-6: S (CST, Dallas, TX)
UTC-5: R (EST, New York, NY)
UTC-four: Q (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
UTC-three: P (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
UTC-2: O (Godthab, Greenland)
UTC-1: North (Azores)
UTC+-0: Z (Zulu time)
UTC+1: A (France)
UTC+two: B (Athens, Hellenic republic)
UTC+3: C (Arab Standard Time, Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar)
UTC+iv: D (Used for Moscow, Russia, and Afghanistan, however, Afghanistan is technically +4:30 from UTC)
UTC+5: E (Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan)
UTC+six: F (People's republic of bangladesh)
UTC+seven: G (Thailand)
UTC+8: H (Beijing, Communist china)
UTC+9: I (Tokyo, Japan)
UTC+10: Grand (Brisbane, Australia)
UTC+xi: L (Sydney, Australia)
UTC+12: M (Wellington, New Zealand)

Examples [edit]

Case 1: 051100Z represents the 5th day of the current month 11:00 (UTC).

Example ii: 091630Tjul11 represents 09th July 2011 4:30 pm (MST).

Example 3: 18192314ZJun22 represents the electric current time of refresh: (Jun) 18 nineteen:23:xiv, Jun 2022 (UTC).

"Zulu time" does not hateful "local time" unless a Zulu fourth dimension zone is specified. Earth rotates in 24 hours, thus there are 24 hours in a day. English Alphabet has 25 characters; without J, there are 24 characters similar 24 hours. Zulu [Z]– is a synonym for Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); and formerly a synonym for Greenwich Hateful Time (GMT).^[1]

Sources [edit]

MIL-STD-2500A 12 Oct 1994

Run into besides [edit]

Agenda date
ISO 8601

References [edit]

TM 20-205, the Dictionary of U.s.a. Army Terms (1944)
ACP 121(I) p 3–7

^ Egeland PhD, Dr Knut Normann, et al (2021: p. iii). "Military Date Time Group - MIL DTG DDHHMMSSZmmmYY", archived in Military University, private Knights Academy (Ko'Yard).