International Property Forum features articles, links, stories and useful information about the world of property and how nearly everything in life revolves around where we live, the office we might work in, the factories where we construct products and the resorts, hotels and properties where we like to take our vacations.

From the moment we rise from our beds in our homes or hotel rooms to the time we return we live work and play in a world full of architecture, property and construction.

Throughout time we have built temples to pray within, castles to keep invaders out, cities of spiralling towers and villages with thatched roofs to keep us dry and warm.

There is hardly anywhere in the world without property being visible in one state or another and the desire to build properties for our protection, our work or for our pleasure is all part of being human.

International Property Forum

Within this website we will create a central focal point full of information about the countries we live in, the types of properties we are building and the homes of the rich and famous.

Associated with our travels around the world we will also be looking at international festivals and events that are often associated with historic cities or monuments as well as international cuisine that forms part of the traditions and cultures of those countries we will feature.

Where ever we turn where we live we see buildings -- from a single cottage in the middle of a field to a towering skyscraper pushing up from a metropolis.

UTC (Universal Time, Co-ordinated) - (Greenwich Mean Time), after the Royal Observatory located in the Greenwich area of London.

UTC is also sometimes called Z or Zulu time. A time may be written as e.g. 21:45Z with the Z indicating UTC. The "Z" is for "zero", and "Zulu" is the two-way radio pronunciation of "Z". It comes from the nautical system in which each time zone was assigned a letter.

Time zones east of UTC and west of the International Date Line are specified by the number of hours ahead of UTC (e.g. UTC+4); zones west of UTC and east of the Date Line are specified by the number of hours behind UTC (e.g. UTC-6). Crossing the Date Line going eastward, clocks are turned back a full 24 hours, and vice versa in the opposite direction. (Note: The total span of time zones covers more than 24 hours because the Date Line jogs westward and eastward to keep certain national island groupings on the same calendar day, although they are not within a single time zone.)

It is important to note that Zulu time is unaffected by Daylight Saving Time. Therefore, when Daylight Saving Time is in effect, Zulu time is one hour behind UTC.