How does the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) work?
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Step 1: Timezones. It’s not day for everyone at the same time, and different areas call the same moment different times. Get a list of every time zone used and how they relate to each other (pacific time zone is an hour behind mountain time zone, etc)
Step 2: Decide upon one of those time zones to be the “official” time, and write out each time zone relative to it (Pacific is UTC -8:00, Mountain is UTC -7:00). You now have an easy, relatively neutral way to describe a particular time, and nobody has to worry about “7pm” being 7pm in New York or 7pm in London.
UTC includes the British Isles, Iceland, the Prime Meridian, and a few countries in Africa.
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