1. It is the international standard on which civil time is based. 2. In traditional astronomical usage, civil time was mean solar time reckoned from midnight. 3. For civil time , another time scale is disseminated, Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ). 4. Midnight marks the beginning and ending of each day in civil time throughout the world. 5. Reiterates false claim that GMT is the basis of civil time in most of the world. 6. Ged Company built civil time receivers. 7. Unlike civil time in Switzerland and many other countries, Swatch Internet Time does not observe daylight saving time. 8. Computers, for example, could use these and convert to UTC or local civil time as necessary for output. 9. There is a proposal to redefine UTC and abolish leap seconds, such that sundials would slowly get further out of sync with civil time . 10. When we ask what time it is, we mean civil time , which is really standard time, which is directly referenced to Coordinated Universal Time.
