What is GMT?

Question

I live in Los Angeles and it is 8:08 right now. So what is my GMT time zone or however you say it?

Answer 1

Greenwich Observatory, located on the Prime Meridian or 0 degrees longitude, is the starting point for the world's time. Some say this is because there was a time when "the sun never set on the English Empire", but who knows. Anyway, GMT is short for Greenwich Mean Time. In the military, and some other circles, this is also referred to as "Zulu Time". It is just a standard used to help everyone coordinate things globally--2pm in one place may not be 2pm in ahother place, but 2pm GMT/Zulu is always 2pm GMT/Zulu on any given date. Since it takes [approx] 24 hours for the Earth to rotate around, there are 24 world time zones. Things like leap seconds are put in by the time people to compensate for that aforementioned "[approx]". For more info, go see the website of the people who montor the clocks on steroids. Okay so it's cesium, not steroids, they're just really really accurate.

I forget if the Pacific Time Zone is GMT -7 or -8 hours when in daylight saving time. So, visit site below to double check.

Answer 2

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in England. 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 scale which only approximates GMT in the old sense. It is also used to refer to Universal Time (UT), which is the astronomical concept that directly replaced the original GMT.

You live in Los Angeles, and if now 08:08, Thursday
it is +7 hours for GMT,
so,
it will 15:08

Answer 3

Yes, you are 8 hours behind GMT in the Pacific Time Zone, and 7 hours behind with Daylight Saving Time.

Britain keeps to GMT in winter and moves one hour ahead of it (British Summer Time) in late March, so at present (15 March) the US and UK are an hour closer together in time than usual.

The reason Greenwich is used as the universal reference point for time is because the first accurate astronomical observatory to measure time was built there in 1675. Its purpose was to improve the safety of sea navigation by making it possible to accurately measure longitude at sea. For this, accurate timepieces set to a standard as well as measurements of star positions, sunrise and sunset were necessary. The clocks were all set with reference to the exact solar time at the Greenwich Observatory. Hence if the sun was setting four and a half hours later than the clock said it should and the ship was in the North Atlantic, it was about to crash into the coast of Maine! (You get the idea).

Answer 4

You are at GMT -8:00 (as am I - in Washington state).

Answer 5

Grenich ( probably spelled wrong) Mean Time---it's what time it is in England, where for some reason the time zones begin.

Answer 6

Greenwich Mean Time
Go to www.time.gov for help with conversions to other time zones.