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This is a list of military time zones as defined in the ACP 121(I) standard. It is used by the U.S. military, as well as the other members Combined Communications Electronics Board. The names are identical to the NATO phonetic alphabet, but with "A" spelled as "Alfa", instead of NATO's "Alpha".
Going east from the prime meridian at Greenwich, letters "Alfa" through to "Mike" (skipping "J", see below) are used for the 12 time zones with positive UTC offsets until reaching the international Date Line. Going west from Greenwich, letters "November" through to "Yankee" are used for zones with negative offsets.
The system apparently originates from Nathaniel Bowditch's 1802 American Practical Navigator book, where time zones were labelled with letters and "J" was skipped to avoid confusion with "I" and because some alphabets, including Cyrillic. do not have a 'J'. 
The letter "J" ("Juliet"), originally skipped, may now be used to indicate the observer's local time. Such practice is not standardized, though. Letter "L" is commonly mistaken for "local".The letter "Z" ("Zulu") indicates Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
They are used in conjunction with military time: for instance, 6:00 a.m. in zone UTC−5 is written "0600R" and spoken "zero six hundred Romeo".