What Does “UTC” Mean?
UTC is the time system used by vehicles using digital tachographs. It stands for “Universal Time Co-Ordinated”. All information recorded by the vehicle unit and on the driver card is in UTC time. Also, all printouts are in UTC time. UTC time and local time can vary and both times are not always the same. In UK, in the Winter, UTC time is the same as local time. In UK, in the Summer, UTC time is local time ( 1 hour) e.g. 10:00 am local time would be 9:00 am UTC time. Below is a conversion table from local time to “UTC” time.
Formerly and still widely called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and also World Time, UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) serves to coordinate the timekeeping differences that arise between atomic time (which is derived from atomic clocks) and solar time (which is derived from astronomical measurements of the Earth’s rotation on its axis relative to the Sun). UTC is widely broadcast by precisely coordinated radio signals; these radio time signals ultimately furnish the basis for the setting of all public and private clocks.
