The general form is <time> <time’s offset from UTC>. “UTC” states offset = 00:00.
Time without a stated offset from UTC is mostly taken to mean local time. “UTC” is one of multiple ways to state zero offset from UTC. Other variants are +0 +00, +00:00 and Z (zulu time, military: zero offset). Read 18:00 +02 as “time is 18:00 with/including a 2hour offset from UTC”.
18:00 +02:00 = 16:00 UTC = 16:00 +0 = 16:00 +00 = 16:00 +00:00 = 16:00 Z.
The offset can be stated indirectly using a geographical reference, as in “Europe/Berlin”. That opens an additional can of worms called Daylight Savings Time or DST. 18:00 Europe/Berlin is ambiguous without the date, you need to know if DST is in effect or not, 18:00 Europe/Berlin can be 18:00 +01 or 18:00 +02 depending on date.
I think Zulu time existed before UTC and referred to time at the zero meridian or possibly to the GMT time zone back in the day. UTC is arguably not a time zone, while GMT is and has the DST problem.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. I am deeply involved in processing log data from remote robot devices and I need to keep these things straight
I would like to join. But if England beats Germany tonight in the UEFA EURO football tournament, I will have to leave early to watch the quarter final.
For the first time in my life, England has eliminated Germany.
However, congratulationsto the Poms for breaking their hoodoo of 55 years!
It is to be hoped it will be another 55 before such a travesty occurs again!
May I suggest that, tomorrow, people add the languages they speak at the end of their username, like ~ EN DE ES etc. so people who can’t English may still be able to join and interact a bit ?
The way it works in Mozilla Hubs is you can get close to avatars to speak with the people, and you only hear the people next to you. So we can have sub communities for people afraid to talk in non-native languages.