Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) zamân-e jahâni-ye hamrârâsté Fr.: temps universel coordonné An international high-precision time standard based on the Greenwich Mean Time and adjusted to compensate for divergence from atomic time. It is based on the non-uniform rotation of the Earth (UT1) and the perfectly uniform international atomic time (TAI). UTC differs from TAI by the total number of → leap seconds, so that UT1-UTC stays smaller than 0.9 sec in absolute value. → coordinate; → universal; → time. |