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Garry Mitchell, a grandson of Diddley and one of more than 35 family members at the musician's home when he died at 1: 45 a. m. EDT ( 05: 45 GMT ), said his death was not unexpected.
The Commodore Semiconductor Group ( formerly MOS Technology, Inc .) was bought by its former management and in 1995, resumed operations under the name GMT Microelectronics, utilizing a troubled facility in Norristown, Pennsylvania that Commodore had closed in 1992.
GMT ceased operations and was liquidated.
Astronomers preferred the latter GMT convention in order to simplify their observational data so that each entire night was logged under a single calendar date.
As the United Kingdom grew into an advanced maritime nation, British mariners kept at least one chronometer on GMT in order to calculate their longitude from the Greenwich meridian, which was by convention considered to have longitude zero degrees ( this convention was internationally adopted in the International Meridian Conference of 1884 ).
Note that the synchronization of the chronometer on GMT did not affect shipboard time itself, which was still solar time.
This changed in 1880, when GMT was legally adopted throughout the island of Great Britain.
On 1 January 1972, GMT was replaced as the international time reference by Coordinated Universal Time, maintained by an ensemble of atomic clocks around the world.
The instant that was designated December 31. 5 GMT in 1924 almanacs became January 1. 0 GMT in 1925 almanacs.
The term Greenwich Mean Astronomical Time ( GMAT ) was introduced to unambiguously refer to the previous noon-based astronomical convention for GMT.
GMT ceased operations and was liquidated.
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech was born on May 11, 1904, at 8: 45 am GMT in the town of Figueres, in the Empordà region, close to the French border in Catalonia, Spain.
Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT ) was originally mean time deduced from meridian observations made at the Royal Greenwich Observatory ( RGO ).
GMT either by that name or as ' mean time at Greenwich ' used to be an international time standard, but is no longer so ; it was initially renamed in 1928 as Universal Time ( UT ) ( partly as a result of ambiguities arising from the changed practice of starting the astronomical day at midnight instead of at noon, adopted as from 1 January 1925 ).
In 1928 the term Universal Time was adopted internationally as a more precise term than Greenwich Mean Time, because GMT could refer to either an astronomical day starting at noon or a civil day starting at midnight.
Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT ) was at one time based on the time observations made at Greenwich ( until 1954 ).
Thereafter, GMT was calculated from observations made at other observatories which were still active.
To help others synchronise their clocks to GMT, a time ball was installed by Astronomer Royal John Pond in 1833.
The beginning of the search for X-ray sources from above the Earth's atmosphere was on August 5, 1948 12: 07 GMT.
Arkan was assassinated, on 15 January 2000, 17: 05 GMT, in the lobby of Belgrade's elite InterContinental Hotel, a location where he was surrounded by other hotel guests.
The staged withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip, with the exception of an Israel troop unit at Rafah camp, at 0400 GMT on 7 March 1957 was carried out according to plan and without incidents.

GMT and adopted
Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT ) is a time system originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, which later became adopted as a global time standard.

GMT and on
After Pleumeur Bodou ( Brittany ) which received the first live transatlantic television broadcasts from the United States via the Telstar satellite at 0H47 GMT on July 11, 1962, Arthur received his first vidéo in the middle of the same day.
But this practice, combined with mariners from other nations drawing from Nevil Maskelyne's method of lunar distances based on observations at Greenwich, eventually led to GMT being used worldwide as a reference time independent of location.
Those countries marked in light blue keep their clocks on UTC / GMT / WET year round.
For example, would tell the browser that the page " expires " on June 21, 2006 at 14: 25: 27 GMT and that it may safely cache the page until then.
GMT would have provided foundry services based on TelCom's Bipolar and SiCr Thin Film Resistor processes and would have been licensed alternate sources for TelCom's Bipolar based products.
* EPA page on former MOS / CSG / GMT fabrication facility-link validated February 4, 2006
Fair City airs Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8. 00 pm GMT on RTÉ One.
Ros na Run airs Tuesday and Thursday nights at 8: 30pm GMT on TG4.
The attack is announced on radio stations in the US at about 2: 26 p. m. EST ( 19. 26 GMT ).
Operations were terminated at the end of the track from DSS 61 at 07: 46 GMT on November 5, 1968.
It is a modern continuation of Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT ), i. e., the mean solar time on the Prime Meridian at Greenwich, and GMT is sometimes used loosely as a synonym for UTC.
The newsmagazine goes to press on Thursdays, between 6 and 7pm GMT, and is available on newsstands in many countries the next day.
* Arthur C. Clarke novel Rendezvous with Rama begins with an asteroid striking Italy at 0946 GMT on September 11, 2077-destroying Padua and Verona and sinking Venice.
By agreement, that last Israel element was withdrawn by 1600 GMT on 8 March and a full Israeli withdrawal from the Sharm al Shaikh area was effected at the same time.
At 11. 12pm GMT on 30 November 1968, the first three-stage Europa 1 launcher put a 550 lb Italian satellite-model into orbit.

GMT and Isle
During this period, Frederic eventually escaped the unfavorable conditions left behind by David and regained tropical storm strength 100 miles ( 160 km ) east of Cuba's Isle of Pines at about 0000 ( GMT ) on September 9.

GMT and Jersey
At 7: 17 pm GMT, the show switched to the United States ' segment about the Glassboro, New Jersey, conference between American president Lyndon Johnson and Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin ; since Our World insisted that no politicians be shown, only the house where the conference was being held was televised.

GMT and .
In the United Kingdom, GMT is the official time only during winter ; during summer British Summer Time is used.
GMT is the same as Western European Time.
Historically the term GMT has been used with two different conventions, sometimes numbering hours starting at midnight and sometimes starting at noon.
Historically the term GMT has been used with two different conventions for numbering hours.
* Belgium: Decrees of 1946 and 1947 set legal time as one hour ahead of GMT.

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