Greenwich Time
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- noun
- /ˈɡrɛnɪtʃ taɪm/
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hora de Greenwich
- To convert local time to UTC, adjust your clock based on Greenwich time.
Examples
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According to the schedule, the train will arrive at 10:45 A.M. Greenwich time.
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The meeting is scheduled for 3:00 P.M. Greenwich time next Wednesday.
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Midnight Greenwich time is seven P.M. here.
Fiction book (1998) -
The observer could then set his or her clock to the listed Greenwich time for that eclipse.
Academic text (2002) -
With the clock now set correctly to Greenwich time, in the next few days one would measure the time when the noon sun peaked.
Academic text (2002) -
The observer would then compare this time with the Greenwich time listed in the almanac.
Academic text (2002) -
"Phileas Fogg and party presented their passports" "at 2:30 Greenwich time this afternoon."
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If you have an accurate clock set to Greenwich time, and the Sun peaks an hour later at your location than the table says it peaks in Greenwich, you are one hour (or 15) west of Greenwich.
Academic text (2002) -
He wore a gray silk vest with a gold chain that terminated in watches at either end, one keeping local planet time, the other Greenwich time.
Fiction book (2000) -
(I'll pass on the feeble joke about Greenwich time, except to say that Ussher used the Julian calendar and that such issues hardly arose in an age before rapid travel made the times of different places a matter of importance.)
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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A time at zero longitude in Greenwich, England used as the world time reference
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People use the time at Greenwich in England as the world time standard
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Time at Greenwich, England that countries use as the world time standard
Time at Greenwich, England used as the world standard
Surface Forms
Morphology
Given knowledge of the place-name 'Greenwich' (noted for Greenwich Mean Time) and the noun 'time', a B1 learner can directly infer this refers to the time measured at Greenwich/the Prime Meridian and used as a standard. The meaning is a straightforward compositional place+time construction found across languages, so it is immediately derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Greenwich Time comes from the town of Greenwich in England, where a special place kept the official clock on the zero line that divides east and west of the world. That's why Greenwich Time means the standard or 'world' time used for schedules and comparing clocks.