UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)

Definition

The single world reference clock, which never shifts for daylight saving time, so computers often store times in UTC and convert them to each person's local time for display.

More from Data & Transformation

• Aggregation

  Boiling many individual values down into one summary number, such as a total, an average, or a count.

• Data Pipeline

  A pipeline built specifically to move data: it pulls information from one place, cleans it up, and saves it somewhere else, usually on a schedule (often called ETL, for extract, transform, load).

• Deduplication

  Removing repeated copies of the same record so each one appears only once.

• ISO 8601 Date Format

  The international standard way to write dates and times with the year first, so `2026-03-04` always means March 4, 2026.

• Normalization

  Organizing a database so each fact is stored in exactly one place, and other records point to it instead of repeating it.

• Null Value

  A special marker that means "no value at all here," which is different from zero or a blank.