![]() In 1960 a global time standard was introduced. ![]() Greenwich Mean Time has been around for several centuries, being used by seafarers to calculate longitude. Where does GMT fit into all this? Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is almost the same as UTC. ![]() Individual appointments can be created with the time zone set for UTC.Īppointment set for UTC time zone UTC vs GMT vs Zulu Other companies and organizations will use UTC to coordinate their work across the globe. Web connected servers synchronize time between each other using UTC. Airline scheduling is done in UTC which is converted to local time when we passengers see it. Perhaps the most common user of UTC time are airlines and aviation. Regular users don’t have to worry about that because Outlook handles the adjustment to ‘local’ time automatically. (Nerd note: Outlook saves all appointments as UTC time plus the time zone setting. That will make sure your appointments are correctly adjusted for ‘summer time’ and not an hour out. UTC is a globally agreed time which never adjusts for daylight savings.Ĭhoose the city/country time zone entry, not the UTC one. Windows gets information on the dates each country changes on/off summer time which Outlook uses to show appointments at the right time. The entry for ‘Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London” isn’t just for that time zone but also to allow the ‘spring forward/leap back’.
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