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. Time zones around the world are expressed as positive or negative offsets from UTC or. (arguably the same as Coordinated Universal Time). Local time is UTC plus the time zone offset for that location, e.g.: Eastern Standard Time (EST) = UTC -5 hours. UTC replaced Greenwich Mean Time on 1 January 1972 as the basis for the main reference time scale or civil time in various regions.