Examples of use of Coordinated Universal Time
1. "You can toot your horn an extra second this year." Coordinated Universal Time coincides with winter time in London.
2. To fix this, the International Telecommunication Union in 1'72 stipulated that "Coordinated Universal Time," an atomic time used as the world standard, could not diverge from astronomical time by more than 0.' seconds.
3. The adjustment will be carried out by sticking an extra second into atomic clocks worldwide at the stroke of midnight Coordinated Universal Time, the widely adopted international standard, the U.S.
4. Although it is possible to have a negative leap second –– that is, a second deducted from Coordinated Universal Time –– so far all have been add–ons, reflecting the Earth‘s general slowing trend due to tidal breaking.
5. The extra second is added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) âЂ« the official world time, based on the performance of atomic clocks âЂ« to make it agree with astronomical time to within 0.' second.