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VeasnaYim Posts 180 Registration date Tuesday June 18, 2013 Status Member Last seen October 2, 2015 - Jul 7, 2014 at 02:01 PM
xpcman Posts 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 - Jul 7, 2014 at 02:15 PM
Dear All,
Can you explain me about time zone that i always seen in computer as format:

(UTC - 6:00) Central Time US & Canada
(UTC - 4:30) Caracas
(UTC - 5:00) Bongota

(UTC + 1:00) Berlin


I saw it's difference bettween the sign " + and -), What are difference?
more thing, what is UTC stand for?
Could you explain me all of this?
If i am in difference countries as Thailand or China, USA, EUROPE which could i go for?
Best regards,
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xpcman Posts 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,825
Jul 7, 2014 at 02:15 PM
UTC in English is Coordinated Universal Time.

Coordinated Universal Time (French: Temps Universel Coordonné, UTC) is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is one of several closely related successors to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For most purposes, UTC is used interchangeably with GMT, but GMT is no longer precisely defined by the scientific community.

Time zones west of Greenwich England are - zones. Those east of Greenwich are + zones. So Central time in the US is -6 hours different than UTC.

You use local time whatever that is.
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