Talk:Coordinated Universal Time

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1 UTC discussions not in support of this article 2 Discussions on how the article should develop 2.1 stronger statement re UTC abbr origin 2.2 Range of UTC times 2.3 Placement of table 3 DST 4 Zulu time 5 Need for disambiguation 6 Removing protection

UTC discussions not in support of this article

It took me months to figure out that the Recent Changes page bases its clock on UTC. Several times I've been tempted to send an email to Jimbo asking him to reset the Wikipedia internal clock. If others have been confused and considered this a minor annoyance, then I'd like to suggest that the term (UTC) be added to the timestamp on the Recent Changes page. -- Modemac 20:10 Feb 8, 2003 (UTC)

Worth doing; note that you can change the timezone used to display times in your preferences. (Another possibility is to use JavaScript (yuck!) to display times in the reader's local timezone.) --Brion 20:22 Feb 8, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks to your suggestion, I figured out how to set my Wikipedia settings to match my time zone. Rather than adding some fancy code, why not just put a tiny addition to the Recent Changes page so that it looks like this:

Below are the last 250 changes in last 7 days.

Show last 50 | 100 | 250 | 500 changes in last 1 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 30 days.

Show new changes starting from 16:02 Feb 8, 2003 (UTC)

-- Modemac 21:04 Feb 8, 2003 (UTC)

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I see the UTC time and cannot see my local time, although I have change the settings. So a link to UTC clock when the time appear in UTC it´s very usefull ( internal or external link ). I can suggest a lot of sites.

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Discussions on how the article should develop

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• W3C specification about UTC Date and Time (http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime)
• UTC Tag for webpages (http://journeytoforever.org/energiaweb/dttag.htm)

I've removed the above links, as they don't describe UTC in any useful way. They seem to be about an obscure date/time formatting specification which, as it happens, may use UTC as the timezone. --Brion 12:12 Feb 9, 2003 (UTC)

W3C have UTC date and time standards. They are interesting to use in the Internet. Where place them relating to UTC and include a link in UTC??. Perhaps UTC web or UTC Internet??

"This document is a NOTE made available by the W3 Consortium for discussion only. This indicates no endorsement of its content, nor that the Consortium has, is, or will be allocating any resources to the issues addressed by the NOTE." It's not a w3c standard, and UTC is only barely touched upon as the base timezone that others are offset from. Frankly I see no reason to link it from anywhere in the Wikipedia. --Brion 13:10 Feb 9, 2003 (UTC)

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From http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-impp-datetime-05.txt

This document defines a date and time format for use in Internet protocols that is a profile of the ISO 8601 standard for representation of dates and times using the Gregorian calendar

So, ISO 8601 it´s a standard. And the rest are proposed profiles of the standard in the Internet. Very important for people that uses UTC, specially in the Internet.

Because of this I propose include a link to UTC(Internet). If interesting for the user, the user will deciede clicking in the link ;)

Regards

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I have translated the UTC article into Spanish ;)

Mac

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stronger statement re UTC abbr origin

Why "UTC"? (http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/general/misc.htm#Anchor-14550)
Putting stronger language into the article abt this is low among my prioriies. --Jerzy 23:03, 2003 Dec 15 (UTC)

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Range of UTC times

Article should say whether UTC implies 24-hour format. And in any case, whether format is specific as to range:

• 0:00 to 23:59,
• 0:01 to 24:00, or
• 1:00 to 24:59

(or their 12-hour equivalents) --Jerzy 23:14, 2003 Dec 15 (UTC)

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Placement of table

The table of conversion from UTC appears so far to the left that the Special Pages links cover part of it. I'm in Cologne Blue, 1024x768 with a fixed left sidebar - anything we can do about this unsightliness? -- Rissa 19:48, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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DST

It should be noted that in DST there is a different UTC -/+ time (E.g in winter, CST is UTC-6 while in Summer it is UTC-5...slightly annoying for me actually [considering WP is UTC]). Ilyanep 02:12, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Zulu time

Quaint mention "also referred to as Zulu time". A bit of explanation might raise the human interest of the page...I'd never even heard of UTC (AFAIK everyone still uses GMT in the UK)--BozMo|talk 15:37, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/MAEL/ag/zulu.htm

Need for disambiguation

There should be a disambiguation section added, since the letters UTC form the initials of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. --ZekeMacNeil 23:13, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Done. Joe Kress 07:21, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)

Removing protection

An extensive discussion regarding the Time Cube edit war has been taking place at Talk:Greenwich Mean Time#Time Cube discussion. I hope the issues have been resolved for now and am unprotecting this page. — Knowledge Seeker দ 20:40, 2 May 2005 (UTC)