At 6:04 PM (1804) the sea buoy off Sunset Beach, NC - near the SC/NC state line - had this to say:
"Station 41024
CaroCOOPS
Location: 33.848N 78.489W
Conditions as of:
Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:00:00 UTC"
Does any one know what is "UTC" time??
Thanks,
Capt'n Bill
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08-26-2011 06:10 PM #1
"UTC" Time
Capt'n Bill
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08-26-2011 06:17 PM #2
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08-26-2011 06:39 PM #3
Re: "UTC" Time
Makes sense! Thanks!
Capt'n Bill
"People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did, But people will never forget how you made them feel."
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08-26-2011 07:02 PM #4
Re: "UTC" Time
Probably more than you wanted to know:
Coordinated Universal Time (abbreviated UTC)[1] is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. Computer servers, online services and other entities that rely on having a universally accepted time use UTC for that purpose.
Coordinated Universal Time is a time standard based on International Atomic Time (TAI) with leap seconds added at irregular intervals to synchronize with the Earth's rotation.[2]
UTC is conceptually different from Universal Time and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), but it can be used interchangeably where sub-second precision is not required.
Time zones around the world can be expressed as positive or negative offsets from UTC as in this list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
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08-27-2011 12:14 AM #5
Re: "UTC" Time
All the above names have been dropped, but remembered by us old folk. U.C.T. time, stands for Universal Coordinated Time. Time starts at Greenwich Mean line, England. I always used Zulu time before. Most of Florida is 5 hours behind. 12:00am UCT is 5:00 AM in Florida. You add 5 hours to the UCT time for the eastern time zone.
BILL
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08-29-2011 08:33 AM #6
Re: "UTC" Time
For Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) subtract 4 hours from Zulu time. When it becomes Eastern Standard Time (EST) subtract 5 hours. Ireland is Zulu plus 1 hour. Zulu time gets shortened to "Z" in conversation. 12Z is 8AM on EDT.
Mal
Miss Molly
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08-29-2011 10:57 AM #7
Re: "UTC" Time
Note that the time in Greenwich England is not UTC time during the summer, as noted with Ireland they leap forward an hour like us.
George
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