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Time. What Time is It? April 5, 2014 “normal time” Local time is the date/time reported by your PC. UTC, Coordinated Universal Time, popularly known.

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2 What Time is It? April 5, 2014

3 “normal time” Local time is the date/time reported by your PC. UTC, Coordinated Universal Time, popularly known as GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), or Zulu time. Local time differs from UTC by the number of hours of your timezone. Chicago is ___ hours from GMT April 5, 2014

4 GPS Time GPS, Global Positioning System time, is the atomic time scale implemented by the atomic clocks in the GPS ground control stations and the GPS satellites themselves. GPS time was zero at 0h 6-Jan-1980 and since it is not perturbed by leap seconds GPS is now ahead of UTC by 16 seconds April 5, 2014

5 More times Loran-C, Long Range Navigation time, is a time scale implemented by the atomic clocks in Loran-C chain transmitter sites. Loran time was zero at 0h 1-Jan-1958 and since it is not perturbed by leap seconds it is now ahead of UTC by 25 seconds. TAI, Temps Atomique International, is the international atomic time scale based on a continuous counting of the SI second. TAI is currently ahead of UTC by 35 seconds. TAI is always ahead of GPS by 19 seconds. April 5, 2014

6 Cell phone Time? Last night Janet’s phone was 5 hours and 29 seconds faster than UTC. Or a few seconds faster than GPS April 5, 2014 http://www.leapsecond.com/java/gpsclock.htm

7 Time http://www.leapsecond.com/java/gpsclock.htm


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