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"Tomorrow is another Today!"
Sir Sandford Fleming invented Universal Standard Time, which was adopted worldwide in 1885.
As a Scottish engineer born in Kircaldy and then a railway engineer in Canada, he planned, surveyed and built the railway line running from
the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean in the late nineteenth century. It was his work on the railway timetables that led Sir Sandford to the invention
of Universal Standard Time.Through standard time,the earth was divided into 24 time zones,each an hour from the next and all a fixed number of hours
from the time in Greenwich,England (Zero degrees longitude) With a dream of one day linking communications between all nations in the British Empire
he saw this completed in 1902 when the last telegraph cable was laid across the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
Sir Sandford Fleming was a founding member of the Royal Canadian Institute and was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1897.
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Coordinated Universal Time
Coordinated Universal Time is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time.
It is within about 1 second of mean solar time at 0° longitude, and does not observe daylight saving time.
For most purposes, UTC is considered interchangeable with Greenwich Mean Time, but GMT is no longer precisely defined by the scientific community.
The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC.
This abbreviation arose from a desire by the International Telecommunication Union and the International Astronomical Union to use the same abbreviation in all languages. English speakers originally proposed CUT (for "coordinated universal time"), while French speakers proposed TUC (for "temps universel coordonné"). The compromise that emerged was UTC which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time (UT0, UT1, UT2, UT1R, etc).
