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- proper noun A high-precision
atomic time standard (abbreviationUTC )
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- noun Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds
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The worlds time standard today is Coordinated Universal Time, which is kept by atomic clocks.
universal time 2002
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Instead the world would definitively switch to UTC, or Coordinated Universal Time, which is based on more accurate atomic clocks.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Michael Rundle 2012
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There is also Coordinated Universal Time, called Zulu Time, which rolls nicely off the tongue.
William Langewiesche on the Amazon air crash Langewiesche, William 2009
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(Coordinated Universal Time – the ordering of the letters are a compromise with the French when this was set).
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So now we have International Atomic Time (TAI) with no leap seconds, and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) which have drifted apart by 33 seconds since 1972.
A Great Leap…Forward? John 2008
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The extra second will be added at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time, or 6:59:59 pm EST.
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First, it is stated as the difference in hours between the capital of an entity and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) during Standard Time.
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CapitalThis entry gives the name of the seat of government, its geographic coordinates, the time difference relative to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the time observed in Washington, DC, and, if applicable, information on daylight saving time (DST).
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Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) UTC is the international atomic time scale that serves as the basis of timekeeping for most of the world.
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The clock display, reading out in Coordinated Universal Time, was scarcely a minute from the instant he'd memorized.
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