Current Time & Date
Time is defined as a continuous progress of events that occur from the past through the present to the future in apparently irreversible succession. This means that you cannot reverse time whether it is an hour, day, week or months. The current time is divided into time zones and it is calculated based on the offset from the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). It takes into account whether that time zone has an active daylight saving time. It is quite different from the ancient days where multiple small independent templates were used to accomplish various tasks. It is essential to specify the UTC time offset as the time zone to display the time at a particular UTC offset.
The calculations of Daylight saving time (DST) are automatic for the time zones that observe DST. The concept of a single worldwide universal time-scale may have been conceived long time ago. However, the technical ability to create and maintain such a time-scale seemed impossible until the mid-19th century. The Greenwich Mean Time was the timescale that was adopted and it has been replaced in a few countries with the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). It became increasingly necessary and helpful with the advent of the industrial revolution as it brought forth a greater understanding and agreement on the nature of time itself.
UTC time grew historically as an effort that was initiated through a collaboration of 41 nations. They officially agreed to sign the draft in 1884 at the International Meridian Conference. Greenwich was designated to define the ‘Universal day’ as a local mean solar time at the Royal Observatory. It is usually counted from 0 hours at Greenwich mean midnight. The current time in UTC does not observe the daylight saving time (DST) as it is at 0˚ degrees longitude within about a second of the mean solar time.
Although the Coordinated Universal Time is accepted in most countries worldwide, it has been adjusted several times. The future adjustments were simplified by the adoption of leap seconds. The primary purpose of the leap seconds is to maintain the UTC within 0.9 seconds of the universal time. It compensates for the retardation of the Earth’s rotation. The current time is expressed using positive or negative offsets from the UTC and can be found in the list of time zones by UTC offset. If you want to determine the current time in your location, the time converter will either subtract or add the offset to give the exact time in the present.