Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is based on International Atomic Time (TAI) with leap seconds added at irregular intervals to compensate for the Earth's slowing rotation.
UTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time. It is the international time standard (UTC+0) used across aviation, computing, and financial markets.
UTC is based on atomic clocks and is precise to nanoseconds, whereas GMT is based on Earth's rotation. UTC is the formal scientific standard.
Simply check your local time offset relative to UTC (e.g. EST is UTC-5, IST is UTC+5:30). Use our time converter tool to convert any time.