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©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) (see URL: http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/utc.html and http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/general/faq.htm) is the international time standard. It is the current term for what was commonly referred to as Greenwich Meridian Time (GMT) (see URL: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/gmt.shtml. Zero (0) hours UTC is midnight in Greenwich England, which lies on the zero longitudinal meridian.