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In the News (Wed 25 Nov 09)

  
  Greenwich Mean Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is mean solar time at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Greenwich, London, England, which by convention is at 0 degrees geographic longitude.
This event may be up to 16 minutes away from noon GMT (this discrepancy is known as the equation of time).
On 1 January 1972, GMT was replaced as the international time reference by Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), maintained by an ensemble of atomic clocks around the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/GMT   (445 words)

  
 NDBC - What is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)?
GMT was established to aid worldwide oceanic navigation and is based on the rotation of the Earth.
It was not until the British railway system started using GMT in the mid 1800s that GMT was adopted "for land use".
And it was not until the late 1800s that GMT was adopted universally.
www.ndbc.noaa.gov /gmt.shtml   (161 words)

  
 GMT Furniture - Designer Furniture - Buy glass, metal ,boardroom,conservatory furniture,dining room furniture
GMT Designs have a nationwide reputation for producing superior glass and metal furniture, hand finished and manufactured to the highest possible standards.
GMT designs are working to bring you a whole concept in unique matching tabletop ware, porcelain, pewter goblets, cutlery and lighting, unrivalled for quality and style.
GMT furniture, is as individual as you are.
www.gmtdesigns.co.uk   (205 words)

  
 GMT - Gummi · Metall · Technik GmbH
GMT has been specialising for more than 30 years in the development and manufacturing of moulded rubber and rubber-metal parts.
GMT is proof that an innovative approach to customer's tasks, together with creativity, flexibility and economic costing, are key factors required to become a leading company in the antivibration Industry.
As GMT are involved in many projects, including the development of parts for new high speed bogies or production of spare parts for private tram operators, we benefit from a constant exchange of information and expertise between all parties involved.
www.gmt-gmbh.de /e/schienen.htm   (257 words)

  
 GMT - Frequently Asked GMT Questions
GMT was created in 1988 by Paul Wessel and Walter H. Smith, and has undergone several revisions and major enhancements since then.
Most users of GMT are Earth scientists, but there are apparently no limits to the kind of applications that may benefit from GMT: We know GMT is used in medical research, engineering, physics, mathematics, social and biological sciences, and by geographers, fisheries institutes, oil companies, and a wide range of government agencies.
GMT was written with the understanding that there would be enough memory to do a task without breaking it into smaller pieces.
gmt.soest.hawaii.edu /gmt/gmt_faq.html   (1041 words)

  
 GMT glass reinforced thermoplastic
GMT is widely used in automotive applications such as under body shields, seat structures, front-ends etc.
GMT is processed by heating the sheets to the matrix softening temperature, usually in an infrared oven, followed by compression moulding in a mould maintained at a lower temperature.
GMT permits a high level of automation during blank cutting, pre-heating and placing into the mould.
www.vetrotexeurope.com /fabrication_processes/re_gmt.html   (146 words)

  
 1.4 GMT Defaults   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
GMT as font types and sizes, pen thickness used for basemaps, linear interpolants used when interpolation is needed and many more (Figures 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 show the parameters that affect plots).
GMT defaults substantially since some applications may rely on the presence of a standard set of default values.
GMT parameters on the fly inside a script the gmtset utility can be used.
www.vuw.ac.nz /geo/intranet/computers/documentation/gmt/doc/html/tutorial/node20.html   (527 words)

  
 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) - World Time / Time in every Time Zone
GMT is sometimes called Greenwich Meridian Time because it is measured from the Greenwich Meridian Line at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
GMT is Greenwich Mean (or Meridian) Time is the mean (average) time that the earth takes to rotate from noon-to-noon.
GMT is World Time and the basis of every world time zone which sets the time of day and is at the centre of the time zone map.
gmt-time.co.uk   (371 words)

  
 ArcGMT
GMT has arisen as an unofficial standard among geoscientists for producing maps, particularly from marine bathymetry, sidescan sonar imagery, gravity, and magnetics data.
GMT is often used to process and create base maps but provides little means for the incorporation of detailed attributes to the locations that are mapped out.
GMT grids are converted to Arc/INFO grids by writing the binary GMT to an ASCII file, and then reformatting the file to space-delimited row-major order and with header information needed by Arc/INFO, including cell size, number of rows and columns, and coordinates of the grid's lower-left corner.
dusk2.geo.orst.edu /arcgmt   (3261 words)

  
 GMT FAQ
It seems that for the GMT project there is a gap between the goal, which is interesting for everyone working with models in the Eclipse area, and a missing common plan.
GMT will to offer an integrated set of tools, both for the model transformation designer and the application developer, to allow development of applications or application families from start to finish, using Model-Driven Software Development principles.
Because GMT is intended as a tool set, not as a tool, we are depending on others to make their tools available.
dev.eclipse.org /viewcvs/indextech.cgi/~checkout~/gmt-home/faq.html   (719 words)

  
 corr
The GMT correlation was deduced from "incomplete" conquest era dates, using arguments based on the structure of the Maya calendar.
Perhaps the greatest strength of the GMT correlation is the fact that it was deduced from the structure of the Maya calendar, and independently confirmed by astronomy.
If the GMT correlation is not correct, it must be mere coincidence that the long count base date of the table is an exact number of Venus cycles earlier than the heliacal rise date discovered by Lounsbury.
members.shaw.ca /mjfinley/corr.html   (9208 words)

  
 About GMT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
GMT (The Generic Mapping Tools) is a software package to create high-quality postscript maps in various projections.
GMT comes as a set of more than 50 programs and tools, each tailor made for their specific task.
It should be regarded as a "appetizer for the real thing" and a reference to the developers of GMT and the programs.
www.aquarius.geomar.de /omc/about_gmt.html   (173 words)

  
 Welcome to Global Material Technologies Inc.
GMT facilities maintain common quality policies backed by a commitment to both QS 9000 and ISO 9002.
GMT has 6 plants in 4 countries, including China, Ukraine, South Africa, and USA.
GMT is the world’s leading supplier of metallic fiber for automotive friction applications
www.gmt-inc.com   (84 words)

  
 GMT Explained   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Actually, GMT is measured from noon whereas UTC is measured from midnight.
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) became a time standard in the 19th century for British maritime navigation.
Based on GMT, but to be a worldwide standard, the ITU felt it was best to designate a single abbreviation for use in all languages.
liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov /Academy/Rocket_Sci/clocks/time-gmt.html   (277 words)

  
 New Version of the Generic Mapping Tools Released
GMT is written in the C language and has been installed on super-computers, workstations, and MacIntosh and IBM-type personal computers, all running some flavor of UNIX; it will likely run on other UNIX platforms with little or no modification.
Most users of GMT are geoscientists, but quite a few are not: we have heard from users in medical research, engineering, physics, mathematics, social and biological sciences, and from geographers, fisheries institutes, oil companies, and a wide range of government agencies.
GMT programs do not prompt the user for input; they receive all their parameters as arguments on the command line.
www.agu.org /eos_elec/95154e.html   (1450 words)

  
 GMT Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
GMT is original alternative jazz, with an emphasis on the inspired vocals of
GMT is currently in the rehearsal studio developing new material.
GMT has completed work on its first CD, entitled 21st Century Music, featuring the songwriting talents of bassist Jordan Brysk and incredible vocals by Lori Panossian.
www.gmtlounge.com   (192 words)

  
 The GMT
However, since its discontinuation, the GMT IIs are available in all three bezel color combinations (blue/red, fl/burgundy, and all fl).
The GMT II line is the natural evolution of the multi-zone watches.
The 24 HR hand on the GMT Master (original) is fixed to the 11:00 Hour whereas the GMT II 24HR hand is independent; pointing to 20:00 HRs.
www.bjsonline.com /watches/articles/0017.shtml   (777 words)

  
 Map Making
GMT supports 22 common map projections plus linear, log, and power scaling, and comes with support data such as coastlines, rivers, and political boundaries.
Occacionally, a frustrated new GMT user will convince him/herself that their work is so important that they are justified in digging up our phone numbers and calling us directly to get personal attention to their problem.
The GMT package is available via anonymous ftp from several servers; they all contain the same files as the main server in Hawaii.
www.ocean.washington.edu /people/faculty/blewis/ocn499/Maps.htm   (539 words)

  
 Gmt programmers manual by Godfried-Willem RAES
Demonstration code for GMT apps can be found in other *.BAS or *.INC modules such as demo.bas.
Often we move source code from the main GMT module to the dll libraries.
If this timer is not capable of providing with the required 1ms resolution, the function will display a message.
www.logosfoundation.org /gmt/gmt_manual.html   (3367 words)

  
 GG710: GMT - The Generic Mapping Tools
GMT is a set of public-domain computer programs widely used for analysis, processing, and display of scientific data.
GMT is used by scientists in a variety of disciplines and on all continents.
GMT has been installed on computers ranging from laptops to supercomputers, all running some flavor of UNIX.
www.soest.hawaii.edu /wessel/courses/gg710-02.html   (1005 words)

  
 TCC 2003: GMT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Knowing the conversion between GMT and your local time will help ensure you are able to attend events during the Conference.
Greenwich, England was established as the "Prime Meridian" (longitude = 0 degrees) and the Royal Observatory was built at Greenwich.
We have done the best job we could to determine GMT conversion for most locations around the world.
kolea.kcc.hawaii.edu /tcc/2003/conference/gmt   (258 words)

  
 A Few Facts Concerning GMT, UT, and the RGO
Some in the astronomical community still use the pre-1925 definition of GMT in the analysis of old data although it is recommended that the term Greenwich Mean Astronomical Time now be used to refer to time reckoned from noon.) o Mean time on selected meridians 15 degrees apart is generally known as standard time.
But in general usage (including that of shortwave broadcasters such as the BBC, for example), GMT now usually means the civil (atomic-second-based) time kept in the United Kingdom which is the standard time of the time zone centred on the 0 degree meridian.
In this (the most common) usage, the terms GMT and UTC are identical.
www.apparent-wind.com /gmt-explained.html   (1770 words)

  
 GMT Productions
GMT announces its lineup for this current Season as well as the lineup for its future Season.
GMT Productions events are designed to build young audiences’ character and teach the values of integrity, honor, persistence, impartiality, generosity, respect of others and self, while entertaining audiences of all ages.
GMT is on the State of Georgia Touring Roster, the South Carolina Arts Commission’s Roster, the Broward County (FL) Schools Students Enrichment Roster, the Lee County (FL) Roster for Outside Agencies, and the Fulton Arts Council (GA), School Arts Program and other Arts Program Rosters throughout its touring area.
www.gmtproductions.com   (139 words)

  
 GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
An email sent from someone in the GMT time zone will have the time zone listed as "+0000" in the headers of the email.
GMT is used all year in these European countries
GMT is used during winter only in these European countries
www.timeanddate.com /library/abbreviations/timezones/eu/gmt.html   (192 words)

  
 Time Zones - ticalc.org
Since ticalc.org is an international site, with the server located in Sweden, we have naturally chosen to use GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) as the time to be used in all references to dates or times on the site.
GMT is the world standard "offset zero" timezone.
Also, GMT does not have any adjustment for Daylight Savings Time.
www.ticalc.org /about/timezones.html   (94 words)

  
 GMT
GMT is the code for Greenwich Mean Time also called UTC or Coordinated Universal Time.
In this example the (-5h) refers to that time zone being five hours behind GMT or UTC and so forth for the other time zones.
As a result, their GMT offset would change from GMT - 5h to GMT - 4 hrs.
www.timetemperature.com /tzus/gmt_.shtml   (407 words)

  
 KIDLINK:Annual Celebration - GMT time explanation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
GMT = Greenwich Mean Time or the time it is in Greenwich, England.
To understand GMT time in relation to you, you must first know your conversion factor.
In other words, if your conversion factor was GMT -8, you would ADD 8 hours to your times to get the GMT times.
www.kidlink.org /annual/01annual/GMT.html   (324 words)

  
 GMT (Generic Mapping Tools)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
The processing and display routines within GMT are completely general and will handle any (x,y) or (x,y,z) data as input.
Each tool has a large number of command line options, which determine such things as what map projection is being used, the area of interest and the weight and colour of the pen used for drawing lines and annotation.
Other examples are available at the GMT home page at http://imina.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/.
www.ucalgary.ca /~phillips/graphics/gmt/gmt.html   (403 words)

  
 GMT
From assisting during initial product design and material selection, through a myriad of production operations, GMT can meet virtually every requirement for quality performance, consistent precision and on-time delivery at the most economical cost possible.
GMT serves a broad and continually growing cross-section of the OEM market for high-quality thermoformed plastic parts.
GMT currently produces an exciting range of automotive parts and assemblies that are currently being successfully employed in both interior and exterior applications.
www.gmtplastics.com   (286 words)

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