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the one clock everyone agreed to obey, so nobody has to argue about whose time is real.
means coordinated universal time, the global standard against which every timezone is just an offset.
from born in the 1960s as a compromise between french bureaucrats who wanted tuc and english speakers who wanted cut, so the world split the difference into utc, backed by atomic clocks instead of the sun.
no dstutc never springs forward or falls back.
leap secondsoccasionally gets a bonus second to match earth's wobble.
military aliascalled zulu time in aviation and the armed forces.
not gmtgmt is solar, utc is atomic, close but not identical.