# In the TV show JAG, why does the word Zulu appear after a time of day?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 23, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-tv-show-jag-why-does-the-word-zulu-appear-after-a-time-of-day/397202 "2007-03-23T16:38:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-tv-show-jag-why-does-the-word-zulu-appear-after-a-time-of-day/397202/21 "2007-03-23T22:16:15Z")

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[QUOTE=Rick]  
No they didn’t screw it up, you just have to remember that:  
A sailor may work from sun to sun,  
But a lawyer’s work is never done.  
[/QUOTE]

Is that because for [del]some[/del] lawyers the sun shines out their …

Whut?

Ouch!

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-tv-show-jag-why-does-the-word-zulu-appear-after-a-time-of-day/397202/22 "2007-03-23T23:40:10Z")

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[QUOTE=Colibri]  
I think I have seen seven within one or two minutes.  
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Even a difference of a minute or two can be a simulpost, since I could post at 2:30:50 and you at 2:31:02; different minute, but still a simulpost.

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-tv-show-jag-why-does-the-word-zulu-appear-after-a-time-of-day/397202/23 "2007-03-23T23:53:37Z")

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Which then brings up the question: How do you feel when there is a seven-way simulpost to your thread? Pleased that so many people care about your question, or abashed because everybody but you already knew the answer? 😃

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**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-tv-show-jag-why-does-the-word-zulu-appear-after-a-time-of-day/397202/24 "2007-03-24T16:29:59Z")

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I’m just amused that **Spectre** and I have identical viewing habits. When I saw the thread title, I thought, “Ah, someone else has been watching the reruns on USA in the morning.” But I had to laugh when I read the OP, because I too was watching the 7:00 a.m. Star Trek while I got ready for work until they pulled it for Sanford and Son, and just this week discovered that I could switch to JAG instead. TV Land is a very small world. And don’t feel too bad, I didn’t know the Zulu thing either.

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