'allballs' probably alludes to the visual appearance of '00:00:00'. 'z' and 'zulu' should be time zones equivalent (or similar?) to UTC or GMT ((US?) military jargon).
Why do we support just 'zulu' and none of the other magic time zone names:
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/timezone.htm
Chris
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