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UTC offset
A UTC offset, also called a UTC time offset, is the signed difference between local civil time and Coordinated Universal Time, written as hours and minutes such as +05:30.
UTC+01:00
UTC+01:00 is a time offset one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time, used as standard time across central Europe and western-central Africa, including Central European Time and West Africa Time.
UTC+02:00
UTC+02:00, also known as GMT+2, is a time zone offset two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time, used in zones such as Eastern European Time and Central Africa Time.
UTC+03:00
UTC+03:00 is a fixed time zone three hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time, used year-round from East Africa to western Russia and as Eastern European summer time.
UTC+08:00
UTC+08:00 (zone 'Hotel') is the time offset eight hours ahead of UTC, centred on 120°E, used by China (Beijing Time), Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei, parts of Indonesia, Mongolia, Irkutsk, and Western Australia; IANA zones include Asia/Shanghai and Australia/Perth.
UTC+09:00
UTC+09:00, known as Japan Standard Time and Korea Standard Time, is a time zone nine hours ahead of UTC used in Japan, Korea, and eastern Indonesia.
UTC+14:00
UTC+14:00, known as Line Islands Time (LINT), is the largest time zone offset on Earth, observed only in Kiribati's Line Islands and created in 1995 when the islands skipped 31 December 1994.
UTC−04:00
UTC−04:00 is a time zone offset 4 hours behind UTC, serving as Eastern Daylight Time in the United States and year-round Atlantic Standard Time in the Caribbean.
UTC−05:00
UTC−05:00, or GMT−5, is a time zone offset that is the standard time of North America's Eastern zone (EST) and of Colombia, Panama, and Peru year-round.
UTC−06:00
UTC−06:00, also written GMT−6, is a time zone six hours behind UTC, known as Central Standard Time in North America and Galapagos Time in Ecuador.
UTC−07:00
UTC−07:00 is a time offset meaning local clocks are seven hours behind Coordinated Universal Time, standard in North America's Mountain zone and observed year-round in Arizona.
Ute (vehicle)
A ute, short for utility vehicle, is an Australian term for a passenger vehicle with an open cargo area, originating with the 1934 coupe utility.
Ute Geweniger
Ute Geweniger (born 1964, Chemnitz), East German breaststroke swimmer; 1980 Olympic double gold medalist (100 m breaststroke, medley relay), multiple world record holder, later confirmed GDR doping.
Ute Kircheis Wessel
Ute Kircheis Wessel (born 1953, Niederaußem), also Ute Wessel, German foil fencer for West Germany; 1984 Los Angeles Olympic team gold, 1976 Montreal fourth place, four World Championship team medals.
Ute M. Moll
Ute M. Moll is a physician-scientist and pathologist at Stony Brook University known for showing that stabilized mutant p53 acts as an oncogene whose removal regresses tumors.
Ute Noack
Ute Noack (born 1943, Berlin) is an East German butterfly swimmer, Berliner TSC; 1962 European medley relay gold and 100 fly silver behind Ada Kok, multiple European records, 10th in the 100 fly at Tokyo 1964.
Ute people
The Ute (Nuche, Núu-ci) are an Indigenous Shoshonean-speaking people of the Colorado and Utah mountains, once organized into bands such as the Mouache and Weenuchiu, now three federally recognized tribes: Southern Ute, Ute Mountain Ute, and Uintah-Ouray.
Ute Steindorf
Ute Steindorf (born 1957) is an East German rower, Olympic gold medalist in the women's coxless pairs with Cornelia Klier at Moscow 1980, and three-time world champion (eights 1977, coxless pairs 1978 and 1979).
Ute Wild
Ute Wild (Ute Nötzel), born 1965 in Zschopau, is a German rower who won Olympic gold in the women's eights for East Germany at Seoul 1988, plus three World Championship silvers and a bronze.
Utendi wa Tambuka
Utendi wa Tambuka, also called the Book of Heraclius or Herekali, is a Swahili religious epic dated 1728–1729, attributed to Mwengo and recounting the Battle of Tabuk.
Utengano
Utengano, Swahili for "separation," is a 1980 Kiswahili novel by the Zanzibari writer Said Ahmed Mohamed, known for its elaborated style and its woven-in taarab lyrics.
Utenzi
Utenzi (plural tenzi, spelled utendi in Lamu) is a Swahili narrative poem in eight-syllable quatrains with fixed rhyme, the oldest long-form genre of written Swahili literature, whose earliest dated work is Utendi wa Tambuka of 1728.
Utenzi wa Ayubu
Utenzi wa Ayubu, also written Utendi wa Ayubu, is an anonymous classical Swahili narrative poem retelling the prophet Job's temptation and restoration, probably composed in 1723 or earlier.
Utenzi wa Mwana Kupona
Utenzi wa Mwana Kupona, also written Utendi wa Mwana Kupona, is a 19th-century Swahili advice poem composed around 1858 by Mwana Kupona binti Msham for her daughter.
Utenzi wa Shufaka
Utenzi wa Shufaka ("The Poem of Compassion") is a classical Swahili epic in which the angels Gabriel and Michael descend in human form to test whether compassion remains among people.
UTEP Miners football
UTEP Miners football, the University of Texas at El Paso FBS team at Sun Bowl Stadium (45,971 seats), coached by Scotty Walden, left Conference USA for the Mountain West on July 1, 2026; all-time 350-605-18.
Uterine arteriovenous malformation
Uterine arteriovenous malformation (uterine AVM, arteriovenous fistula): a rare high-flow vascular shunt between uterine arteries and myometrial veins, usually acquired after curettage, cesarean section, or abortion, causing severe bleeding; diagnosed by Doppler ultrasound, treated by embolization or medication.
Uterine artery embolization
Uterine artery embolization is an interventional radiology procedure in which particles block blood flow in both uterine arteries, shrinking fibroids as a uterine-sparing alternative to hysterectomy and controlling postpartum hemorrhage.
Uterine balloon tamponade
Uterine balloon tamponade is a procedure that controls severe postpartum hemorrhage by inflating a fluid-filled balloon inside the uterus, recommended by the World Health Organization.
Uterine cancer
Uterine cancer, also called endometrial cancer in its common form, is cancer of the uterus; the rare form is uterine sarcoma. About 68,270 US cases and 14,450 deaths expected in 2026, with 80.9% five-year survival.