{"id":3139,"date":"2010-01-29T12:50:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2010-01-29T12:50:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:50:40","slug":"learned-todayuniversal-time-the-endeavour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/29\/learned-todayuniversal-time-the-endeavour\/","title":{"rendered":"Learned Today::Universal time \u2014 The Endeavour"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nUniversal time (UTC) is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), give or take a second. It\u2019s essentially the time in Greenwich, England except it ignores Daylight Savings Time.<br \/>\n<strong>The abbreviation UTC is an odd compromise. The French wanted to use the abbreviation TUC (temps universel coordonn\u00e9) and the English wanted to use CUT (coordinated universal time). The compromise was UTC, which doesn\u2019t actually abbreviate anything.<\/strong><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johndcook.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/28\/universal-time\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheEndeavour+%28The+Endeavour%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Universal time \u2014 The Endeavour<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal time (UTC) is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), give or take a second. It\u2019s essentially the time in Greenwich, England except it ignores Daylight Savings Time. The abbreviation UTC is an odd compromise. The French wanted to use the abbreviation TUC (temps universel coordonn\u00e9) and the English wanted to use CUT (coordinated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/29\/learned-todayuniversal-time-the-endeavour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learned Today::Universal time \u2014 The Endeavour&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learned-today","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}