Netiquette IQ Technical Term Of The Day - Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, GMT, CUT)

Many of us have difficulty remembering Greenwich Mean Time and what it is. As I have mentioned many times, proper scheduling, sending email and other factors of time and communications are critical for good Netiquette. Keep this blog as a reference point for when you may need it!

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Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, GMT, CUT)

Coordinated Universal Time (abbreviated as UTC, and therefore often spelled out as Universal Time Coordinated and sometimes as Universal Coordinated Time) is the standard time common to every place in the world. Formerly and still widely called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and also World Time, UTC nominally reflects the mean solar time along the Earth's prime meridian. (The prime meridian is 0° longitude in the 360 lines of longitude on Earth. There are 179 meridians toward the East and 179 toward the West. The 180th meridian is also called the International Date Line.) The prime meridian is arbitrarily based on the meridian that runs through the Greenwich Observatory outside of London, where the present system originated. The UTC is based on an atomic clock to which adjustments of a second (called a leap second) are sometimes made to allow for variations in the solar cycle.

Coordinated Universal Time is expressed using a 24-hour clock but can be converted into a 12-hour clock (AM and PM). UTC is used in plane and ship navigation, where it also sometimes known as Zulu. UTC uses the Gregorian calendar.

UTC was defined by the International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR), a predecessor organization of the ITU-TS, and is maintained by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM).

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photo from worldtimezone.com

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Note: The website below is agreat source of world time information:

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/current-time/ 

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