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        !             3: GMT                         Definition                        GMT
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        !             8: GMT is an abbreviation  of Greenwich Mean Time, the time recorded
        !             9: at the  Greenwich Observatory in England,  where by international
        !            10: convention the Earth's zero meridian is fixed.
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        !            12: By definition, COHERENT  fixes system time in GMT.  It calculates
        !            13: local time  as an offset of  GMT; for example, the  time zone for
        !            14: Chicago is six hours (360 minutes) behind Greenwich, so the local
        !            15: time for  Chicago is calculated  by subtracting 360  minutes from
        !            16: GMT.
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        !            18: ***** See Also *****
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        !            20: definitions, gmtime(), localtime, time, time.h, TIMEZONE
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        !            22: ***** Notes *****
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        !            24: The ANSI  Standard replaces GMT  with UTC (_u_n_i_v_e_r_s_e_l  _t_e_m_p_s _c_o_o_r-
        !            25: _d_o_n_n_e,  or universal  coordinated time)  for C  programming.  The
        !            26: change  is mainly  one of terminology  rather than  substance, as
        !            27: some  signatories to international  conventions object  to naming
        !            28: the standard for global time after a village in England.
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        !            30: Under international convention, there are two UTC standards: UTC1
        !            31: is based  on solar time and is identical  to current GMT, whereas
        !            32: UTC2  uses atomic  clocks that are  corrected by  comparison with
        !            33: pulsars.   These standards  drift apart  as the  earth's rotation
        !            34: slows; thus, ``leap seconds'' are inserted periodically into UTC1
        !            35: to bridge the difference.
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