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 (Coordinated Universal Time) is an atomic timescale that approximates UT1. It is the international standard on which civil time is based. It ticks SI seconds, in step with TAI. It usually has 86,400 SI seconds per day but is kept within 0.9 seconds of UT1 by the introduction of occasional intercalary leap seconds.