Why it❜s called UTC
UTC does not favor any particular language. In addition, the advantage of choosing UTC is that it is consistent with the abbreviation for Universal Time, which is UT, with the variations UT0 and UT1.
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is often interchanged or confused with Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). But GMT is a time zone and UTC is a time standard.
Although GMT and UTC share the same current time in practice, there is a basic
difference between the two:
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GMT is a time zone officially used in some European and African countries. The time can
be displayed using both the 24-hour format (0 - 24) or the 12-hour format (1 - 12 am/pm). UTC is not a time zone, but a time standard that is the basis for civil time and time zones
worldwide. This means that no country or territory officially uses UTC as a local time.
GMT | Vancouver | San Francisco | Seattle |
Los Angeles | Denver | Mexico City | Houston |
Minneapolis | New Orleans | Chicago | Montgomery |
Indianapolis | Atlanta | Detroit | Miami |
Washington DC | Philadelphia | New York | Montreal |
Boston | Buenos Aires | Sao Paulo | Rio De Janeiro |
Lisbon | Dublin | London | Madrid |
Barcelona | Paris | Brussels | Amsterdam |
Frankfurt | Rome | Berlin | Prague |
Vienna | Stockholm | Athens | Helsinki |
Minsk | Istanbul | Cairo | Jerusalem |
Beirut | Moscow | Baghdad | Dubai |
Bangkok | Jakarta | Hong Kong | Beijing |
Shanghai | Seoul | Tokyo | Melbourne |
Sydney | Brisbane | Vladivostok | Kamchatka |