Though late Victorian adventure novels use
universal time to regulate nonconforming temporality, modernists turn a skeptical eye toward temporal standardization.
Over hundreds of years, this
universal time zone would gradually drift east from Greenwich, reaching Paris before the "leap hour" moved it west again.
32-bit platforms are designed to perform time and date-related calculations, and manipulations correctly from 1/1/1970 00:00:00 through 1/18/2038 22:14:09 (2147483647) Coordinated
Universal Time.
But for a single event on a specific day,
Universal Time is preferred because it allows for easy conversion to any time zone worldwide.
The computers that "count" the seconds for the USNO's clocks are instructed to add one integral second to their real-time realization of Coordinated
Universal Time, or UTC, at the end of the final minute of the UTC day, according to Chester.
Anyway there's Coordinated
Universal Time, International Atomic Time, GPS Time, Greenwich Mean Time and - I suspect - Public Transport Time.
Audio clips and video animations explain topics like the disappearance of the Aral Sea, plate tectonics and Coordinated
Universal Time.
Additional upgrades and enhancements include new date and time functions including conversion to
Universal Time Code (UTC).
44) was about 18h
Universal Time on December (not August) 14, 2015.
The ITU World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-15), currently in session in Geneva from 2 to 27 November, has decided that further studies are required on the impact and application of a future reference time-scale, including the modification of coordinated
universal time (UTC) and suppressing the so-called leap second .
1884: Greenwich was adopted as the
universal time meridian of longitude from which standard times throughout the world are calculated.
These include
universal time zone support, multiple currency tracking, country-specific mailing label formats and more.
