Coordinated Universal Time

The world’s time standard today is Coordinated Universal Time, which is kept by atomic clocks.

universal time 2002

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

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

(Coordinated Universal Time – the ordering of the letters are a compromise with the French when this was set).

David Thielen: What Time Do You Really Mean? 2009

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

The extra second will be added at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time, or 6:59:59 pm EST.

Stephen's Lighthouse: Longest Year Ever - really? 2008

First, it is stated as the difference in hours between the capital of an entity and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) during Standard Time.

Notes and Definitions 2008

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).

Notes and Definitions 2008

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) UTC is the international atomic time scale that serves as the basis of timekeeping for most of the world.

Notes and Definitions 2008

The clock display, reading out in Coordinated Universal Time, was scarcely a minute from the instant he'd memorized.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2003