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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
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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
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