UTC

principal time standard that underlies civil times on Earth
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UTC

Summary

UTC is a time standard[1]. UTC ranks in the top 6% of time_standard entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,015 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • UTC's instance of is recorded as time standard[3].
  • UTC's instance of is recorded as time zone[4].
  • UTC's based on is recorded as International Atomic Time[5].
  • UTC's based on is recorded as universal time[6].
  • UTC's Commons category is recorded as Maps of time zones[7].
  • UTC's said to be the same as is recorded as UTC±00:00[8].
  • UTC's said to be the same as is recorded as Western European Time[9].
  • UTC's has part is recorded as leap second[10].
  • UTC's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0122vw[11].
  • UTC's replaces is recorded as universal time[12].
  • UTC's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/Coordinated-Universal-Time[13].
  • UTC's standards body is recorded as International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service[14].
  • UTC's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/utc[15].
  • UTC's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'zxx', 'text': 'Z'}[16].
  • UTC's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'UTC'}[17].
  • UTC's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'be-tarask', 'text': 'СКЧ'}[18].
  • UTC's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as universaltid[19].
  • UTC's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20].
  • UTC's Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID is recorded as pasaulinis-koordinuotasis-laikas[21].
  • UTC's Lex ID is recorded as UTC[22].
  • UTC's KBpedia ID is recorded as CoordinatedUniversalTime[23].
  • UTC's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 협정 세계시[24].
  • UTC's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 239348[25].
  • UTC's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as computer-science/universal-coordinated-time[26].
  • UTC's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 202750[27].

Why It Matters

UTC ranks in the top 6% of time_standard entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,015 views/month).[2] UTC has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] UTC is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . bipm.org. bipm.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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