Humanism in the age of Henry VIII. London ; Dover, N.H. : Croom Helm, 1986 (OCoLC)795302915: Named Person: Henry, King of England; Henry, King of England; Henry, King of England: Document Type: Book: All Authors / Contributors: Maria Dowling
Prior to 1972, this time was called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) but is now referred to as Coordinated Universal Time or Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). It is a coordinated time scale, maintained by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM). It is also known as Z time or Zulu Time.
UTC Time: Definition. Coordinated Universal Time is a modern iteration of Greenwich Mean Time. As mentioned above, the phrase, which refers to GMT as counted from midnight, was coined in the 1930s.Other than this, one of the biggest differences between GMT and UTC is that UTC does not observe Daylight Saving Time.ou know how each is expressed as a certain number of hours ahead of UTC or behind UTC? (For example, UTC -5 is Eastern Standard Time.) Well, the letter z refers to the Greenwich time zone, which is zero hours (UTC + 0).