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  2. Coordinated Universal Time - Wikipedia

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    Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time. It establishes a reference for the current time, forming the basis for civil time and time zones. UTC facilitates international communication, navigation, scientific research, and commerce. UTC has been widely embraced by most countries and ...

  3. International Atomic Time - Wikipedia

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    International Atomic Time. International Atomic Time (abbreviated TAI, from its French name temps atomique international [1]) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth's geoid. [2] TAI is a weighted average of the time kept by over 450 atomic clocks in over 80 national laboratories ...

  4. Time synchronization in North America - Wikipedia

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    Time synchronization in North America can be achieved with many different methods, some of which require only a telephone, while others require expensive, sensitive, and rare electronic equipment. In the United States, the United States Naval Observatory provides the standard of time, called UTC (USNO), for the United States military and the ...

  5. List of UTC offsets - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the UTC time offsets, showing the difference in hours and minutes from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), from the westernmost (−12:00) to the easternmost (+14:00). It includes countries and regions that observe them during standard time or year-round. The main purpose of this page is to list the current standard time offsets ...

  6. UTC offset - Wikipedia

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    The UTC offset is the difference in hours and minutes between Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and local solar time, at a particular place. This difference is expressed with respect to UTC and is generally shown in the format ± [hh]: [mm], ± [hh] [mm], or ± [hh]. So if the time being described is two hours ahead of UTC (such as in Kigali ...

  7. Universal Time - Wikipedia

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    Universal Time. Universal Time ( UT or UT1) is a time standard based on Earth's rotation. [1] While originally it was mean solar time at 0° longitude, precise measurements of the Sun are difficult. Therefore, UT1 is computed from a measure of the Earth's angle with respect to the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF), called the Earth ...

  8. New York–Dublin Portal - Wikipedia

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    The New York–Dublin Portal (also simply known as The Portal) is an interactive installation created by Lithuanian artist Benediktas Gylys to allow people in New York City and Dublin to interact with each other using two 24-hour live streaming video screens.

  9. Connection (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Connection (Korean: 커넥션) is an ongoing South Korean television series written by Lee Hyun, directed by Kim Moon-gyo, and starring Ji Sung, Jeon Mi-do, Kwon Yul, and Kim Kyung-nam.