Greenwich Mean Time (Noun)
Meaning
The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England; it is the same everywhere.
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
Examples
- Coordinated Universal Time is based on International Atomic Time, but it is occasionally adjusted to stay within 0.9 seconds of Greenwich Mean Time.
- Computer clocks can be synchronized to the central clock that sets the time according to Greenwich Mean Time.
- Greenwich Mean Time is the same as Coordinated Universal Time, or in other words.
- China spans a large geographic area and it uses a single time zone of UTC+8, which is identical to Beijing Time and is officially called Beijing Time but is more commonly referred to as Chinese Standard Time, the name also has been used by the authorities and the post office, ironically not Greenwich Mean Time.
- Until the time zones were synchronized with Greenwich Mean Time, different towns followed the solar time standard, established using a sundial.