[SystemSafety] MH370

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

On 2014-03-13 13:57 , Robert Schaefer at 300 wrote:
> 
> The explanation could be a telemetry timestamp with a timezone error - easy mistake to make.
> 
> How does a telemetry processor know what time it is, or what timezone it's in?

Aviation works in Zulu time, not local time. Zulu time = GMT. The processor knows what time it is,
and doesn't care what timezone it's in.

PBL

Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld, 33594 Bielefeld, Germany
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