Flight Software Dictionary
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Flight Software Dictionary
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UTC
Short for “Coordinated Universal Time”. (The original words are French so the words are rearranged.) Coordinated Universal Time is one of the two default time standards supported by the Time Service in the Core Flight Executive layer. (The other one is TAI, “International Atomic Time.). Of primary note is that UTC tracks leap seconds while TAI does not.