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GMT and correlation
According to the correlation between the Long Count and Western calendars accepted by the great majority of Maya researchers ( known as the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson, or GMT, correlation ), this starting-point is equivalent to August 11, 3114 BCE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar or 6 September in the Julian calendar (− 3113 astronomical ).
The GMT correlation was chosen by John Eric Sydney Thompson in 1935 on the basis of earlier correlations by Joseph Goodman in 1905 ( August 11 ), Juan Martínez Hernández in 1926 ( August 12 ), and Thompson himself in 1927 ( August 13 ).
This date is equivalent to 11 August 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar ( or 6 September in the proleptic Julian calendar ), using the correlation known as the " Goodman-Martínez-Thompson ( GMT ) correlation ".
The most commonly accepted correlation is the " Goodman, Martinez, Thompson " correlation ( GMT correlation ).
However, there have been other correlations that have been proposed at various times, most of which are merely of historical interest, except that by Floyd Lounsbury, two days after the GMT correlation, which is in use by some Maya scholars, such as Linda Schele.
The current ( 13th ) baktun will end, or be completed, on 13. 0. 0. 0. 0 ( December 21, 2012 using the GMT correlation ).

GMT and 0
The instant that was designated December 31. 5 GMT in 1924 almanacs became January 1. 0 GMT in 1925 almanacs.
But Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) ( an atomic-based time scale which is always kept within 0. 9 second of UT1 ) is in common actual use in the UK, and the name GMT is often inaccurately used to refer to it.
GMT is now often called Universal Time, which is now calculated from observations of extra-galactic radio sources, and then converted into several forms, including UT0 ( UT at the remote observatory ), UT1 ( UT corrected for polar motion ), and UTC ( UT in discrete SI seconds within 0. 9 s of UT1 ).
Analemma plotted as seen at noon GMT from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich ( latitude 51. 4791 ° north, longitude 0 °).
On 20 August 2006 an earthquake with a magnitude of 7. 0 struck at 1: 41 a. m. local time ( 0341 GMT ).
Each USN solar XUV and X-ray detection launch ( 5 as a salvo ) was from 40. 0 ° N 150. 0 ° W on Oct 12 1958-at 08: 32, 08: 42, 08: 43, 08: 52, and 09: 10 GMT, with configuration designations: NN8. 59F-NN8. 62F and successive apogee achievements of 222, 236, 242, 240, and 88 km.

GMT and .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Note that the synchronization of the chronometer on GMT did not affect shipboard time itself, which was still solar time.
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.
This changed in 1880, when GMT was legally adopted throughout the island of Great Britain.
GMT was adopted on the Isle of Man in 1883, Jersey in 1898 and Guernsey in 1913.
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.
Historically the term GMT has been used with two different conventions for numbering hours.
The term Greenwich Mean Astronomical Time ( GMAT ) was introduced to unambiguously refer to the previous noon-based astronomical convention for GMT.
* Belgium: Decrees of 1946 and 1947 set legal time as one hour ahead of GMT.

GMT and date
During the same year, on October 25 at 06: 00 GMT after playing the Glasgow Barrowlands as part of their 29 date UK tour, the band's crew bus caught fire on the M62 motorway whilst travelling between Glasgow and Lincoln, destroying it and the crew's personal items.
The notebook is headed with the date 27 December and the time 12: 20 ( 00: 20 GMT ), which does not accord with the date and time given by the other witnesses for the incident.
The date is in the format YY / MM / DD and the times are given in Universal Co-ordinated Time ; also known as GMT or Zulu time.
* 5R66: 30 jewels, date, GMT.
* 5R86: 50 jewels, date, GMT, Chronograph.
* 9R66: 30 jewels, date, GMT.
* 9R86: 50 jewels, date, GMT, Chronograph.

GMT and occurred
Liftoff occurred at 5: 36 p. m. EDT ( 2136 GMT ).
It occurred in the afternoon ( 19: 11 GMT, 15: 11 local time ) and its resulting tsunami affected southern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, eastern New Zealand, southeast Australia, and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
The disaster occurred when flammable cargo exploded at Ryongchon Station at around 13: 00 local time ( 04: 00 GMT ).
The crash occurred at approximately 06: 13 ( GMT ), when a Land Rover Defender towing a loaded trailer ( carrying a Renault Savanna estate car ) swerved off the M62 motorway just before a bridge over the East Coast Main Line.
It occurred near the town of Bodaybo in the Mamsko-Chuisky district of Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia, Russia on September 25, 2002 at approximately 10: 00 p. m. ( local time, UTC / GMT + 9 hours: ISO 8601 format 2002-09-25T13: 00Z ).
Launch occurred on 21 March 2000, at 23: 28 GMT.
Launch, from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station occurred at 20: 12: 00 GMT on April 4, 2008.
The launch vessels set out from port again on 2008-01-02, and launch occurred successfully at 11: 49 GMT on 2008-01-15.
At the 11 November 1859 meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, Richard Carrington presented a paper describing his observations of the super flare that occurred on 1 September, at 11: 18 GMT and later named in his honor.
The magnetic phenomena that occurred at about 11: 18 GMT on 1 September 1859 are now known as a Solar Flare Effect ( SFE ) or a Magnetic Crochet, but the connection would not be proven for another 80 years.
Assuming that the transit time for the first super flare was the same as the second or 17 hours and 45 minutes, the Stewart Super Flare occurred at about 04: 45 GMT on the morning of 28 August 1859.
Liftoff occurred successfully at 14: 21 GMT on 17 March 2009.

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