Loosing track of time?
In our globalised world where you can log-in to web sites and information sources from all corners of the world and increasingly use your computer desktop to have a telephone conversation or have a chat it is easy to forget that we all live and sometimes work in different time zones – "Thanks son for that 'Happy Birthday' at 4am!"
Being an avid listener of the BBC World Service programmes I always thought that GMT was the centre of all time and all other time labels were local imitations but apparently UTC is the same as GMT!
What is Universal Time?The times of various events, particularly astronomical and weather phenomena, are often given in "Universal Time" (abbreviated UT) which is sometimes referred to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (abbreviated GMT). The two terms are often used loosely to refer to time kept on the Greenwich meridian (longitude zero), five hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time. Times given in UT are almost always given in terms of a 24-hour clock. Thus, 14:42 (often written simply 1442) is 2:42 p.m., and 21:17 (2117) is 9:17 p.m. Sometimes a Z is appended to a time to indicate UT, as in 0935Z.
So now you Know …Time to go!
