Your voyage planning indicates you will arrive at a waypoint in longitude 149° 16.3' E at 0947 ZT on 3 March 1988. How should this date be entered into an AMVER report?
• AMVER reporting format for date and time groups • Difference between zone time (ZT) and UTC/Zulu time (Z) • How dates change when converting from one time zone to another
• First, decide whether AMVER wants times in local zone time or in UTC (Z) time. What letters in the choices might hint at this? • Think about what the letter K or Z after the numbers represents. How does that affect the date you report? • If your position time is 0947 on 3 March in your local zone, what would the corresponding UTC time and date be, given your longitude?
• Confirm whether AMVER reports require UTC (Z) time or allow zone time with a zone description letter • Check if you must include the calendar date or only transmit a combined date–time group • Verify that the sequence of digits (day–hour–minute vs hour–minute–day) in each choice matches standard maritime message formats
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