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61Railway time — was the name given to the standardised time arrangement first applied by the Great Western Railway in England in November 1840. This was the first recorded occasion when a number of different local times were synchronised and a single standard… …
62Coordinated Universal Time — UTC redirects here. For other uses, see UTC (disambiguation). Coordinated Universal Time (abbreviated UTC) is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is one of several closely related successors to Greenwich… …
63Nautical time — The establishment of nautical standard times, nautical standard time zones and the nautical date line were recommended by the Anglo French Conference on Time keeping at Sea in 1917. The Conference recommended that the standard apply to all ships …
64standard time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time,… …
65Malaysian Standard Time — (MST; Malay: Waktu Piawai Malaysia) is a standard time used in Malaysia. It is 8 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and Coordinated Universal Time. The local mean time in Kuala Lumpur was originally +6:46:48 GMT. Peninsular Malaysia used this… …
66Greenwich Mean Time — (GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is now often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, although strictly UTC is an atomic time… …
67Universal Time — (UT) is a timescale based on the rotation of the Earth. It is a modern continuation of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), i.e., the mean solar time on the meridian of Greenwich, and GMT is sometimes used loosely as a synonym for UTC. In fact the… …
68European Summer Time — is the arrangement in Europe by which clocks are advanced by one hour in Spring to make the most of seasonal daylight. This is done in all of the countries of Europe except Iceland which observes GMT all year round. In the European Union this… …
69Prime time — or primetime is the block of programming on television during the middle of the evening. Definition In North America, television networks feed their prime time programming in two blocks: one for the Eastern, Central, and Mountain time zones, and… …
70Old-time radio — Before television, radio was the dominant home entertainment medium. Old Time Radio (OTR) and the Golden Age of Radio refer to a period of radio programming in the United States lasting from the proliferation of radio broadcasting in the early… …
