Re: [PATCH] APM fixes, workarounds and tidying

Mark H. Wood (mwood@IUPUI.Edu)
Tue, 1 Dec 1998 06:20:04 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Lauri Tischler wrote:
> Billy Harvey wrote:
> > politically correct statement. I've always preferred the term Zulu,
> > based on personal background.
>
> The term apparently originates from native South-Africans who lived in
> kraal's and used to wear jars on their heads :)

Via the U.S. military phonetic alphabet, and the military use of letters
to designate timezones. Zone Z is offset 0 hours from GMT.

-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@IUPUI.Edu
Innovation is only valuable if it improves one's life; otherwise it's
just one more silly change to cope with.




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