Under the proposal, leap seconds would be technically replaced by leap hours as an attempt to satisfy the legal requirements of several ITU-R member nations that civil time be astronomically tied to the Sun.
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Some monasteries also have a clock showing civil time since boat schedules run thereon ( and on the civil calendar ) as well as for pilgrims who may be disoriented by Byzantine time reckoning.
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The UTC time standard, which is widely used for international timekeeping and as the reference for civil time in most countries, uses the international system ( SI ) definition of the second, based on atomic clocks.
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It is the international standard on which civil time is based . " Edit also shows propensity to change to British spelling even when an organization's official name uses American spelling " Earth Orientation Center Centre ".
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The resulting gradual shift of the sun's movements relative to civil time is analogous to the shift of seasons relative to the yearly calendar that results from the calendar year not precisely matching the tropical year length.
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The steady progression of sunset around the world and seasonal changes results in gradual civil time changes from one day to the next based on observable astronomical phenomena ( the sunset ) and not on man-made laws and conventions.
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A " time offset " is an amount of time subtracted from or added to Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) time to get the current civil time, whether it is standard time or daylight saving time ( DST ).
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When the apparent solar time that corresponds to a given civil time is to be found, the difference in longitude between the site of interest and the time zone meridian, daylight saving time, and the equation of time must all be considered.
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The POSIX committee considered whether Unix time should remain, as intended, a linear count of seconds since the epoch, at the expense of complexity in conversions with civil time or a representation of civil time, at the expense of inconsistency around leap seconds.
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Also in use is Byzantine time, in which the day commences at sunset as does the liturgical day and not at midnight as in the reckoning of civil time, and the difference between the two varies according to the season of the year.
