How does the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) work?

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How does the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) work?

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I’m just going to add to the explanations already given that an important feature of UTC is that it doesn’t daylight savings time.

UTC remains unchanged throughout the year. This helps other timezones which do observe daylight savings time (and might not all start at the same time) to relate to each other.

For example, CET (Central European Time) is UTC+1. But when sprig comes around, you go into summer time (if you live in a place which observes it) and your timezone becomes CEST (Central European Summer Time) which is UTC+2.