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Zulu Time

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ID 728749 Last modified 03.05.2024
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Domain Physicsair traffic
  • the international standard of time that is kept by atomic clocks around the world
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  • Varem kasutati mõistet GMT.
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  • ... the UTC time divides time into days, hours, minutes and seconds, but while one day is always of 24 hours and one hour always of 60 minutes, a minute, while almost always consists of 60 seconds, sometimes it can be a period of 59 or 61 seconds.
koordineeritud maailmaaeg
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  • Aeronavigatsiooniteabes kasutatakse ajalise referentssüsteemina gregoriuse kalendrit ja koordineeritud maailmaaega (Coordinated Universal Time – UTC). Kohalik aeg Eestis on UTC+2 tundi, suveaja korral on kohalik aeg Eestis UTC+3 tundi.
UTC abbreviation
Coordinated Universal Time
Usage examples
  • Coordinated Universal Time is the time zone "0" from which all other time zones around the world are then calculated. It is similar to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), but unlike this time, it is not based on the time of rotation of the Earth, but on measurements made by atomic clocks that are most accurate and above all more stable over time.
Zulu Time
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  • Sometimes the UTC time is also called "Zulu time", simply for the fact that time is briefly referred to as "Z time" in naval-air navigation and the letter Z is articulated as "Zulu" in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
UTC time abbreviation
UTC abbreviation
Z Time abbreviation

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