What does UTC stand for?

Coordinated Universal Time (zulu or Greenwich Mean Time, GMT)

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With major advancements in performance, ease of integration and software flexibility, the Resolution-SMT GPS receiver enables system integrators to add precise GPS to provide location, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and synchronization to many products or systems where cost or size had previously been a limitation.

United States: Trimble Introduces Tiny GPS Timing Receiver to Keep ...

And so, at exactly 23:59:59 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) -- or Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to the scientifically literate -- on December 31, the world's clocks will add a beat to their metronomic tick tick tock.

New Year on hold: leap second makes time stand still

Naval Observatory is going to add a "leap second" to the world's clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on December 31, 2008.

"Leap second" to be added to world's clocks on December 31

All this despite the fact that GMT was replaced in 1972 by Coordinated Universal Time which relies on an atomic clock.

SCOTS TOWN WHERE TIME STOOD STILL; RED FACES: THE CLOCKS IN DUMFRIES ...

These seconds were introduced in 1972, when the world began keeping Coordinated Universal Time.

EXTRA SECOND HELPS US LEAP INTO NEW YEAR

Audio clips and video animations explain topics like the disappearance of the Aral Sea, plate tectonics and Coordinated Universal Time.

WELL-MADE CDS SPARK INTEREST\Atlas encourages junior explorers

One of the first PCI-based modules to provide a level of timing accuracy to 50 nanoseconds of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the bus cards also support one of the widest variety of time codes available - over 30 inputs/outputs to choose from.

Symmetricom Announces New PCI Time and Frequency Processor Modules

The clocks are now set to Coordinated Universal Time, introduced in 1972 and based on atomic time.

Wait for it . . . the New Year now arriving will be one second late