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Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

UTC is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is derived from International Atomic Time (TAI) with leap seconds added to stay aligned with Earth's rotation.

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the global reference time scale used to coordinate civil clocks, navigation systems, telecommunications, and computer networks. It is computed from International Atomic Time (TAI), a weighted average of hundreds of atomic clocks maintained by the BIPM, with occasional leap seconds inserted to keep UTC within 0.9 seconds of UT1, an astronomical scale tied to Earth's rotation. UTC replaced Greenwich Mean Time as the formal world standard in 1972. All entries in the Why Timezone Rules Are So Complex (tzdata) are expressed as offsets from UTC, and most operating systems store timestamps internally in UTC to avoid ambiguity around daylight saving transitions. In 2022 the General Conference on Weights and Measures resolved to abolish the leap second by 2035.

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