Showing posts with label greenwich time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label greenwich time. Show all posts

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

We all may heard about GMT, but sadly most of us don't know what is that about, so here I'm going to post that under the category "ONE INFO A DAY" where one interesting topic will be posted daily.

 

 

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is a time system originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, which later became adopted as a global time standard. It is arguably the same as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and when this is viewed as a time zone the name Greenwich Mean Time is especially used by bodies connected with the United Kingdom, such as the BBC World Service,the Royal Navy, the Met Office and others particularly in Arab countries, such as the Middle East Broadcasting Center and OSN.

Before the introduction of UTC on 1 January 1972 Greenwich Mean Time (also known as Zulu time)