universal time

Questions about universal time

What does universal time mean?

universal time means "the local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England; it is the same everywhere".

What is another word for universal time?

Close synonyms include Greenwich Mean Time, Greenwich Time, GMT, UT, UT1. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is universal time a common word?

universal time is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.