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World Time
This is my latest computer toy/tool…
World Time clock. (pop-up image)
I poke around on NOAA’s Space Environment Center site quite often and never know what the Universal Time is. That’s especially handy to know when following the Aurora Borealis charts. I wanted to find a clock that would show me UT at the click of a button.
A couple of years ago I had this same clock, but a computer and another hard drive later it had long since vanished. I couldn’t remember what it was called. Last night I found it again, downloaded it, and customized it. The default look is kind of dull, so I customized it with one of my fun fonts in a size I can see, along with some bright colors. It is hugely customizable.
Also, I can keep the World Time icon in my Windows Sys Tray so that if I hold the mouse over the icon, the Universal Time (or any time zone I choose) will pop up. But it’s more fun to look at the clock.
You can get one, too—World Time.
Comments
Ha! Fie upon your clock! UTC (or GMT as it was once known) is 10 hours ahead of me; easily remembered! 
Doesn’t GMT also go on Daylight Saving Time for part of the year? I can never remember which time zone is doing what. Besides, I like clocks. 
I did learn last night that Beijing is exactly 12 hours ahead of us. That’s an easy one to remember until we go back off daylight saving time.
British Standard and British Daylight, but they don’t affect UTC/GMT, unless somebody’s changed the rules. The Navy lives on Zulu (GMT/UTC) time for its telecommunications, and I don’t remember ever having to adjust clocks.
I had always thought that, but looking at the World Time thingy last night I noticed in the preferences for the GMT time that it said Daylight Saving begins the last Sunday in March and ends the last Sunday in October. That was confusing.
But it appears that this clock has a GMT Standard Time and a Greenwich Standard Time. What they call GMT Standard Time practices Daylight Saving Time as does Greenwich itself. Greenwich Standard Time is what the rest of us call Greenwich Mean Time or UT.
No wonder the powers that be decided to just rename it Universal Time—or actually Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) for civil time.
Here’s more information than anyone would probably ever want to know about UT, but quite interesting, nonetheless.
My head is spinning. I think I should check out that link lol.
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