The ITZ~ChronStamp Descriptors

The first zone Z01~ begins on the West side of the International Date Line Time or IDLT.
The thirteenth zone Z13~ begins on the West side of the Greenwich Prime 0º Meridian.
and the last zone Z24~ completes the 360-degree globe on the East side of the IDLT.

Explanation
An ITZ~ChronStamp references Standard Time at Zone Z01~ at the International Date-Time Line (180º meridian)
UTC references Standard Time at Zone Z13~ commonly referred to as UTC, Zulu or GMT at the 0º Prime meridian.
When parsing text, a character string beginning with a 'Z' that ends with a ~ or + is a ChronStamp candidate.
The second step is verification of total character count (22 or 25) and valid component strings.
Char-Positions for Standard Time
Z             [C1] The letter Z begins a ChronStamp string.
01/24         [C2-C3] The majority of ITZ strings will be 22 characters.
                               The vast majority of the world references Standard Hours & Minutes;
Char-Positions Shift to the right 3-positions when NON-Standard Time is observed.
01.00/24.00   [C2--C6] A decimal character in position [C4] indicates a 25-character string is used.
                               Decimal Digits (01-59) Are Required when NON-Standard Minutes are used.                
~ + or .        [C4] The ~ character indicates Standard Time. The + character indicates Advanced Time.
20090101         [C5--C12] Year Month Date in ISO-8601 Standard is a condensed format yyyymmdd
MO           [C13-C14] Day of the Week uses (2) characters to improve recognition by humans.
@            [C15] The 'AT' sign character separates day & time to prevent 'Ooh' and Zero confusion.
                               It is also used as a verbal prefix in English. i.e. "Meet me on MOnday @  9AM",.
000100       [C16--C19] 24-Hour Time in ISO-8601 Standard's condensed format 0h0m with leading zeros OR
00-59 AM/PM  [C20--C21] Optional Seconds or AM/PM characters; even though time is always in the 24-hour format.
~ or +            [C22 or C25] Either a tilde ~ or a plus + character iis used as the last character to terminate an ITZ~ChronStamp.

Examples of other Date Time Zones
Z01.00~      IDLT   - UTC +12 hours at the 180th Meridian
Z08.30~      India  - UTC +05 hours and 30 Non-standard minutes
Z10.00~      Iraq   - UTC +03 hours
Z12.00~      France - UTC +01 hours
Z13.00~      UTC    - UTC +/- hours Greenwich 0º- Degrees
Z18.00~      EST    - UTC -05 hours Eastern Standard Time UTC
Z18.00+      EDST   - UTC -04 hours Eastern Daylight Saving Time UTC
Z19.00~      CST    - UTC -06 hours Central Standard Time UTC
Z20.00~      MST    - UTC -07 hours Mountain Standard Time UTC
Z21.00~      PST    - UTC -08 hours Pacific Standard Time UTC
Z24.00~      M.Is.  - UTC -11 hours at the 165th Meridian
FR@          Day of Week (2) characters followed by '@' prevents letter 'O' and Zero confusion.
070100       24-Hour Local Time in HHMMSS Default format
0701PM       24-Hour Local Time in HHMMPM an Optional format using AM/PM for local times
~ or +       Terminating characters

An ORIGINATORS' Local Date Time Descriptor is the first stamp following the Z01~ ChronStamp.
     Unlimited local Time Zone descriptors may follow a primary ITZ descriptor.

The NBS~Group of ITS Consultants believes
many of those interested in calendars and clocks have probably come to the same conclusion.
It is a chaotic mess that gets worse every day. After surviving the year 2000 event, it appears that no country took the opportunity
to recommend new International Time Zone standards even thouth many were in obvious conflict with each other.
While high-tech laboratories were counting ever smaller fractions of a second, the majority of the world still can  not calculate what the time or day
is anywhere else in our shrinking world. Back in 1876, Sir Sandford Fleming of Canada proposed time zones for the entire world as part of a
single 24-hour clock which would be center of the earth based. Later in 1879, he also proposed a universal day that would begin at the 180º
meridian. Yet, today as our military forces fight in the middle east and elsewhere, major strategic and logistical errors occur far too often
because of conflicting and confusing standards.
Coordination of events can be scheduled to fractions of a second, but just not on the right day!

Compensation, losing or gaining a day is a confusing way of referring to a 24-hour day by creating more zones than there are hours in a day. 
The IDL was established at 180 degrees in the late 1700's when most clocks were set at noon. Since most means of travel and
communications were at or below the transit speed of the sun, this was of no major concern.
Yet by 1925, electronic communications demanded that newer world standards be established; and the Greenwich Observatory
became the official timekeeper.
The IDL remains to this day, the line where each day ends and a New World Day begins.
When the time at the 180-Degree meridian becomes 0001 or a fraction thereof, the Day Of the Week for the first Zone Z01~ on the Western
side of the IDL becomes the New World Day; and the other 23-Zones are the current day.
This process increments until the twelfth hour, when one might then consider the new day as current and the remaining hours as the Old Day.
When the last or 24th hour (2300-2400) is reached or stepped – all 24 International Time Zones are the same day of the week during the
24th and last hour of the World Day. Of course, the IDL is midnight at only one moment of the day -- the moment it is 12-NOON at Greenwich,
England, or 7:00 AM Eastern Standard Time. By International Agreements, the eastern most degree of each time zone denotes the beginning
of the hour for the entire 15-degree zone, and therefore the beginning of the New Local Day at local midnight.
However, the New World Day still begins and ends at the IDL.

FlexComm.com maintains date, day and time tables at one of the lowest, practical levels possible.
This on-demand solution pushes ITZ information for central office area codes, prefix codes (NXx’s), Zip Codes, airports and County seat cities.
The calculated time values in eVectory applications are referenced to NIST time, and the day of the week at the IDL.
In eVectory software applications, date-time sensitive information is tracked for each event, occurrence or change.

Within eVectory database applications,
ChronStamps are indexed and tracked like other information, e.g. phone ~'s dialed, account codes  and audit trail logs.
The example below shows a simplified CALL DETAIL RECORD (CDR), tracking the start and stop times for a voice or data call.
Additional fields such as trunk number, route, email addresses, etc. are not shown here; nor are fields provided by other systems like scheduling or call accounting.

The following example shows a CDR for Stephen (SDC) in Atlanta calling John (JDA) in San Francisco.
By default, the 'stop' descriptor uses the Originators time - reducing the number of steps required to calculate the total length (holding time)
and report on the call or data connection.
Z01~20050117MO@033800~START; Z18~20050116SU@1038AM~SDC; Z21~20050116SU@0738AM~JDA; Z18~20050116SU@104500~STOP;
In a typical pbx record, a person's phone number or other identification number might be included.
Either way, each CDR must include enough information in order to merge the individual CD-Records
into a vectory of eVEnts. A typical CDR includes considerably more information in many different formats.

For instance, a pbx manufacturer would include additional data positioned for their purposes in-between the
Time Zone Descriptors - e.g. route numberss, trunk numberss, departmental info-accounting codes; while a
transferred connection typically involves two or more CDR's. Whereas a single continuous connection typically
requires only one CDR.

CDR"s are serially output in chronological order as each event occurs to facilitate printing or
display on many different devices.
In most systems, a very large amount of redundant data is generated requiring more storage.
This redundant data storage has historically been necessary for external software systems to process, cost, query, merge and subsequently provide sophisticated query reports.

Additional References and Links are provided below to quickly access other important web sites and web pages.
Definitions
Wikipedia Encyclopedia
Sidereal Day (23 hours, 56 minutes, 4.091 seconds)
Solar Day
Time general definitions
History of Time Zones
UTC~Coordinated Universal Time

World Clock Time Zones www.TimeandDate.com
Current Date and Time for International Date Time or ITZ~ChronStamp at  Z01~

United States Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.

Visit:  The U.S. Naval Observatory
The USNO Copy of "The New American Practical Navigator" by Nathaniel Bowditch
Z-Time  by Harold F. Maybeck
An excellent summary describing the beginnings of world time zones by Nathaniel Bowditch.
Many contemporary maps incorrectly reference historic navy sources - causing confusion and misunderstanding
for readers studying today's 24 Standard International Date Zones (ITZ) and the Global Positioning System of satellites..

It is also important to realize that on any January 1, the sun is continuously above the horizon across most of Antarctica.
Therefore, if the question is really, "Where will the sun first be seen after the beginning of the new millennium...
or any New Year?" the answer is simple: Antarctica. However, if you are interested in the first sunrise, the question
becomes more involved. The fundamental issue is when you think a new day, or a new year, begins.
Does it begin at local midnight, in the time zone defined by the local jurisdiction?
Or does it begin at midnight on the meridian of Greenwich, England (the zero longitude meridian), that is,
0 hours Greenwich Mean Time? Astronomers refer to the latter instant as Zero-Hours
Universal Time (0H UT) & that is the usage here. The Washington Prime Meridian Conference of 1884, which established
the Greenwich Meridian as the prime meridian, did not settle this matter. The final resolution states: That the Conference
proposes the adoption of a universal day for all purposes for which it may be convenient,
and which shall not interfere with the use of local or other standard time where desirable.

Thus, the two conflicting definitions are enshrined in international law.
In the following, we (USNO) define local time as the time zone (civil time) established by the local governing authority,
except in Antarctica. In Antarctica (and the surrounding waters), local time, as used here, is the time zone defined by
the nearest meridian of longitude that is an integer multiple of 15°. "
Reprinted from Astronomical Applications on the web-site of the U.S. Naval Observatory.

WHAT IS U.T.C.?
Universal Time Coordinated was established in 1925, specifying the Zero Meridian location at Greenwich, England, but for
determining time only - not the day of the week. A day and a night have been the measure of a complete daily cycle for
thousands of years. Some religions established the setting sun as the end of a day; while others referenced the lack of
shadows to designate the middle of the day, since the rising and setting sun varied throughout the year. While man for his
convenience, continues to sub-divide the day into smaller and smaller pieces - the fact remains that for one brief, daily
moment we each are at the end of the old and the beginning of a New Day.
It is during the last or 24th hour that the day of the week is the same for all of us.
For astronomers, the Date-Day Line moves with the minute we refer to as midnight or 2400/0000. Interestingly, astronomers
use zero longitude to be the separator of the old astronomical day from the new, the beginning of a new month, a new year
and the new Millennium; while the worlds of commerce and transportation use the International Date Line.

WHAT IS I.D.L.?
Time zones were first proposed for the entire world by Canada's Sir Sandford Fleming in 1876 as an appendage to the single
24-hour clock he proposed for the entire world (located at the center of the Earth and not linked to any surface meridian!).
In 1879 he specified that his universal day would begin at the anti-meridian of Greenwich (now called 180°), while conceding
that hourly time zones might have some limited local use. He continued to advocate his system at subsequent international
conferences. Reprinted Courtesy of www.Wikipedia.org

The 180th meridian was chosen as the International Date Line by the International Meridian Conference in 1884. This line has
been agreed internationally to mark the beginning and end of a World Day. The IDL is "An imaginary line on the earth's surface
that joins the north and south poles and approximately follows the 180-degree meridian through the Pacific Ocean. A traveler
moving towards the east, against the sun's apparent movement, gains 1 hour for every 15 degrees of longitude. Traveling
westward he loses time at the same rate. In crossing the dateline therefore he is deemed to compensate for this by losing or
gaining (respectively) one day. Reprinted Courtesy of Oxford University Press from 'A Dictionary of Science'

Notes on IDL
The old paradigms have become inappropriate for the modern world of supersonic travel, GPS and speed of light
communications. Use of the constantly changing zigzag path of the IDL and ITZ boundaries should be abandoned and removed
from out of date world maps. The NBS~Group recommends revision of the legacy definition of IDL as follows:
All references to International Time Zones shall be considered as Standard Time only.
Date and Day shall follow their logical sequence of new versus old (1/23, 2/22,...23/1) until all IT Zones are different hours of
the same day. The abbreviation 'IDL' should be considered the official abbreviation for the International Date Longitude -
at 180º West. A more accurate paradigm would be country names suffixed with the IT Zone used. e.g. Hawaii <Z23~> or
India <Z08.30~>, no DST observed. If a tilde ~ or + character is included, the predominant time observed is indicated.
For example in the United States, US<Z18+> indicates Daylight Saving Time <+> is primarily used and Standard Time <~> is secondary.
Countries on either side of the redefined IDL could still choose their date and time as they always have.
Some countries advance their day without advancing their time and vice versa.
 

History of the International Date Line and Web Pages on the History of Astronomy
   by Robert Harry van Gent

Geography Time Zone Dateline 1999AUG03 from www.About.com
Prior to the late nineteenth century, time keeping was a purely local phenomenon.
Each town would set their clocks to noon when the sun reached its zenith each day.
A clock maker or town clock would be the "official" time and the citizens
would set their pocket watches and clocks to the time of the town - enterprising
citizens would offer their services as mobile clock setters, carrying a watch with
the accurate time to adjust the clocks in customer's homes on a weekly basis.
Travel between cities meant having to change one's pocket watch upon arrival.

However, once railroads began to operate and move people rapidly across great
distances, time became much more critical. In the early years of the railroads, the
schedules were very confusing because each stop was based on a different local time.
The standardization of time was essential to efficient operation of railroads.

In 1878, Canadian Sir Sanford Fleming proposed the system of worldwide time zones
that we use today. He recommended that the world be divided into twenty-four time zones,
each spaced 15 degrees of longitude apart. Since the earth rotates once every 24 hours
and there are 360 degrees of longitude, each hour the earth rotates one-twenty-fourth
of a circle or 15° of longitude. Sir Fleming's time zones were heralded as a
brilliant solution to a chaotic problem worldwide. United States railroad companies
began utilizing Fleming's standard time zones on November 18, 1883.

In 1884 an International Prime Meridian Conference was held in Washington D.C. to
standardize time and select the Prime Meridian. The conference selected the longitude
of Greenwich, England as zero degrees longitude and established the 24 time zones based
on the Prime Meridian. Although the time zones had been established, not all countries
switched immediately. Though most U.S. states began to adhere to the Pacific, Mountain,
Central, and Eastern time zones by 1895, Congress didn't make the use of these time zones
mandatory until the Standard Time Act of 1918.

Today, many countries operate on variations of the time zones proposed by Sir Fleming.
All of China (which should span five time zones) uses a single time zone - eight hours
ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (known by the abbreviation UTC - based on the time
zone running through Greenwich at 0° longitude).
Russia adheres to its designated time zones although the entire country is on permanent
Daylight Saving Time and is an hour ahead of their actual zones.
Australia uses three time zones - its central time zone is a half-hour ahead of its designated
time zone. Several countries in the Middle East and South Asia also utilize half-hour time zones.
Since time zones are based on segments of longitude and lines of longitude are narrow
at the poles, scientists working at the North and South Poles simply use UTC time.
Otherwise, Antarctica would be divided into 24 very thin time zones!

The time zones of the United States are standardized by Congress and although the lines
were drawn to avoid populated areas, sometimes they have been moved to avoid complication.
There are nine time zones in the U.S. and its territories; they include Eastern, Central, Mountain,
Pacific, Alaska, Hawaii- Aleutian, Samoa, Wake Island, and Guam.
Reprinted Courtesy of www.About.com and for more information about Daylight Saving Time

Historically, the globe has been divided into two groups of twelve-hours longitude each.
   If one traveled east of the prime meridian, one subtracted hours; traveling West one added hours.
   Accurate time was calculated at the prime meridian for many years by the peak height of the sun at noon.
   Consequently, the 180th meridian, twelve hours away on the opposite side of the earth, became known as the
   International Date Line.
   Latitudes are referenced as 0 to 90 degrees North or South of the Equator.
   Longitudes are referenced as 0 to 180-degrees East or West of the Greenwich 0-Meridian.
   This system became standardized in the late 1800's for determining a ship's location a sea.
   A ship's clock was synchronized with the master clock at Greenwich. When used in combination with navigational instruments,
      mathematical tables and the position of the Sun and Stars - a navigator could calculate the longitude and latitude of his ship.

The ITZ~ChronStamp Rules Base
The following is a detailed explanation of the mathematical operations for software programmers.
The calculations are actually very simple. They can be performed using one's fingers or in one's head, so to speak..

1.  There are 24-Hours in each Day and there are 24-International Time Zones encompassing the globe.
     * The first 12-Hours of each Day are numerically counted the same in 12 or 24-Hour time.
     * The second group of 12-Hours in each Day continue counting with 13 representing 1:00 p.m., and 23 representing 11:00 p.m..
     * To convert regular time to 24-Hour, simply add 12 to the regular time from noon to midnight. 1:00 p.m. is 1300PM & 2:00 p.m. is 1400PM.
     * To convert 24-Hour time to 12-Hour, subtract 12 from the hours 1300 to 2400. (e.g. 1800 is 18-12 = 6:00 p.m..)

2.  Circles, including the Earth are represented by a total of 360-Degrees.
     * Each Time Zone is 1/24th of the 360-degree circle or 15-degrees of arc.
     * Care should be exercised when viewing a World Globe or Map, since many are marked with Longitude (vertical) lines
         that are not 15-degree sectors.

3.  By International Agreement
     * The time at the most-eastern leading edge of a Time Zone determines the Hour and Day for the 15-degree zone that follows.

4.  The International Date Line (IDL) Time is located at 180 Degrees.
     * The IDL separates the last Zone Z24~ and the first Zone 01~.
     * Z01~ covers 180 to 195 degrees or East-165 to East-180.

5.  Always "Follow the Sun" or Go West Young Man, Go West.
     * If both zones are the same status, i.e. observing, or not observing Daylight Saving/Summer Time (DST),
        simply subtract the two Zone numbers.
        (e.g.. If a person were in Atlanta, Z18~ or the other is in London, Z13~ - the answer is 18-13 = a difference of 5 hours.)
     * If both zones are not the same status,  i.e. one is observing Daylight Saving/Summer Time, then
        If the higher zone number is not observing DST and the lower zone number is observing, then subtract the two  numbers and add one hour.
        (e.g.. If a person were in New York, Z18~ (EST - November) and their associate were in London, Z13+;
        then the calculation is 18-13+1 = 6 or a difference of 6 hours.)
     * If the higher zone number is observing DST and the lower zone number is not,
        then subtract the two numbers and subtract one hour.
        (e.g.. If a person were in London, Z13+ (November) and their associate were in Guam, Z03~;
        then the calculation is 13-3-1 =  9 or a difference of 9 hours.)

6.  Z01~ is the first zone West of the IDLT at 180-165ºE degrees and
     Z24~ is the last zone East of the IDLT at 165ºW-180 degrees.
     * Eastern Standard Time, Z18~ is 17 hours behind the NEW World Day and
     * Eastern Daylight Saving Time, Z18+ is 16 hours behind the New World Day.
     * Warning: Some Pacific island nations have chosen to use the same time for all of their country, even though the IDLT is involved.

7.  The Current or old Day ends in Z24~ and the New Day begins in Z01~.
     * When the time in Z01~ is 11:00 - 11:59 p.m.(23:00 to 23:59:59) the entire World will be the same Current Day.
     * When the time in Z24~ is 12:01 a.m. (00:01 - 00:59:59) then Z01~ begins a New Day & Zones 02-24 are still the Current Day.
     * Note: During the last hour of the Current World Day, the Day of the Week will be the same crossing the IDL in either direction.

8.  Memorize Your Local Time Zone Number.
    * The use of 24-zones is logical, easier to grasp and teach than the archaic and confusing system originally designed for mariners.
       It will benefit all facets of business, government and personal life.
    * Determine what your Local Time Zone number is by finding your city or a city in the same time zone where you are located.
         (e.g. Eastern Standard Time is Z18~ and your local geographic area observes Daylight Saving Time -
         then replace the tilde (~) character in Z18~ with a Plus (+) character to indicate DST is being observed.)

9.  Next, Memorize Your Local Time Zone Difference.
       Honestly, this really is simpler than it looks below, and can be done in one's head (mentally calculated).
    * First, subtract the primary zone 01 from your time zone - found in the table above - to determine your Difference Number.
         e.g. Standard Time Difference is 18-1 = 17 and Daylight Saving Time (DST) Difference is (18-1)-1 =16.
         If the difference number were 17, it means the New World Day begins 17 hours before local midnight..
    * Next, simply add your difference number to your local 24-hour time.
         e.g. If your local time is 1:01pm (1301PM), add 13 and 17 (Standard 13+17=30).
               If the sum is 24 or larger, subtract 24 (hours) to determine the current hour on the International Date Line.
               If the sum is 24 or larger, the day of the week (and date) will be tomorrow on the International Date Line.
         e.g. If your local time is 5:01am (0501AM), add 5 and 17 (Standard 5+17=22).
               If the sum is less than 24, the number is the current hour at the International Date/Time Line, i.e. 2201pm (10:01pm).
               If the sum is less than 24, the day of the week and date are the same as your local day and date.
    * In New York, Washington or Atlanta, the New World Day begins at 7:00am (0700AM) local time, and 0800AM during Saving/Summer Time.

10. How to Determine the Current Hour of the New World Day in Z01~.
     * If the hour at the International Date Line is 1001AM:
         the NWD has begun its 11th hour and 13 Time Zones are in the Current or Old World Day.
         For twenty-three hours a day, there are two days being observed, the Current or Old Day and the New Day.
     * During the 23rd hour of 2300 through 2400, there is only one day of the week globally observed,
         and all 24-International Time Zones are New.


The NBS~Group of Consultants Respectfully Recommends to:
         The U.S. Naval Observatory
         The United States Congress
         The American National Standards Institute
         and The International Organization for Standardization

*   Convening an International Conference to be hosted by the U.S.N.O., A.N.S.I. and the I.S.O..
     The goal would be replacement of the outdated and conflicting standards of 1884-1925 with a logical, algorithmic perspective
     for representing world date-time zones by defining a new  International Date/Time Line ISO-Standard.
*   Adopting a new standard for use in education, business and government,databases, graphical displays, commercial products,
     and printed materials; plus security, log, email, document and work-order applications.
*   Continuing the International Agreement specifying that the eastern most degree of each I.T. Zone shall determine the hour
       for the entire zone.
*   Redefining, renaming and renumbering the 24 time zones as International Time or Information Transport Zones (IT-Zones).
*   These IT-Zones would be represented by integers Z01~ through Z24~.
      Non-standard minutes would be designated using decimal digits 01-59.
*   Renaming the International Date Line to the International Date-Time Line.
*   Defining the IDL to follow  exactly the 180th Meridian with no divergence from North to South Pole.
     Abandon the display of the IDL as a zigzag path to accommodate local ordinances as archaic, confusing and unnecessary.
     Those Sovereign States wishing to alter their relationship to the IDL can do so by adopting the 23rd, 24th or any time zone
       by sovereign law.
*   Transmitting the new ITZ~ChronStamp date-time over the Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) system.
     Such a signal could be received by both personal devices such as wristwatches, pda's, cellular phones and commercial systems.
*   Adopting the ITZ paradigm as an ISO world wide web standard for use on computerized networks.
*   Retiring the archaic bi-directional, plus/minus 1 to 12 hour reference to the Zero Meridian in future publications.
*   Standardizing the use of 15-degree time zone divisions as the default for the boldest lines of longitude on graphical representations of the world.
     Positioning the 24 Zones on world maps with the leading eastern degree defining the beginning of the zone.
     (e.g. Zone Z13~ would define the longitude range from the zero meridian to the 15th meridian. UTC time would not change.
     Greenwich and London are normally Z13~ and Z13.0+ when Daylight Saving Time is in effect.)
*   Defining as numeric, any computer data field used with time zone values, and restricting the range of values used
       between 01.00 through 24.00.
*   Defining the use of the Plus + character to define Daylight Saving Time, and the use of a tilde ~ character to define Standard Time.
     (e.g. Replacement of Eastern Standard Time (EST) with Z18~ and Eastern Daylight Saving Time (EDST) with Z18+).
*   Defining an alphanumeric data field to be used to track the current status of Daylight Saving Time observance.
     (e.g. A logical field might track a condition or a value like 'Y, 1 or +' for DST, and 'N, zero-0 or ~' for Standard Zone Time)
*   Defining the first  IT-Zone Z01~ as 180-195 degrees west of the IDL
       and the twenty-fourth IT-Zone 24~ to be 165-180 degrees (east of the IDL).
       (The ITZ paradigm can be easily used to calculate mentally (in one's head or on one's fingers ) the time in any zone.)
*   Requiring the use of zone numbers that provide the correct mathematical status whenever a Country or State uses one time zone across
     multiple zones. (e.g. China, India, the former USSR and Kiribati. If the United States decided to use Eastern Standard Time from New York
     to Los Angeles, Z18~ would be used in place of Z19~ through Z21~.)
*   Defining Local Civil Time by those who wish to continue using advanced minutes by using the following format: INDIA = Z08.30~)
*   Updating and modifying International Agreements to use the succinct abbreviated designators Z01~ through Z24~ 
        and Z01+ through Z24+  replacing the confusing and often duplicated abbreviations.
        (example:EST is used by both the USA and Australia)
     A few examples of abbreviated designators that are meaningless except to local inhabitants are EST, EDST, AZOST, HST, IST and CHST.
     Only two or three local abbreviations are familiar to the average man on the street; and they provide no help in calculating time globally.

The ITZ~ChronStamp paradigm provides a standardized format for
    event logs, security, telecomm, document and database management systems.
  * Non-Standard time zones may be expanded with a decimal & digits 01-59 to advance the minutes of a local time zone.
       e.g. "Z08.30~" for India.
  * Each ChronStamp consists of 22 or 25, uniquely positioned, uppercase characters that create an accurate, concise chronological stamp.
  * Fixed character positions provide fast, reliable character extraction, math calculations and unambiguous human comprehension.
  * ITZ~CS is a terse, alphanumeric format that uses the smallest fixed number of characters and
       complies with both Unix and Windows file-paths.
  * Meridians are not Time Zones - they are lines of longitudinal demarcation.
  * Each Time Zone includes 15º degrees of longitude and begins with a specific eastern most meridian in multiples of 15º, 30º, 45º, etc..
  * The time honored use of the letter "Z" to represent Zulu time is used globally, although officially - time at the 0º Prime Meridian
       is referred to as Universal Time Coordinated or simply UTC.
  * Examples of the Standard 22 character format and a Non-standard 25 character format that accommodates advanced minutes:
     Z01~20050829MO~011559~        Z18+20050828SU@0915AM+  {Washington,DC: Eastern Daylight Saving Time
     Z01~20050829MO~011559~        Z23~20050828SU@0315PM~  {Honolulu, Hawaii: Year-round Standard Time
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