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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

They're technically the same anyway, only the name is different.

Also, I hate the name UTC, simply because the order of the letters of the acronym don't match up with the first letters of the words of which the acronym stands for, which is Coordinated Universal Time, and not Universal Time Coordinated like I always thought.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Huh, I always thought it was French, but Wikipedia says UTC was a compromise intentionally neither French nor English. Politics is weird

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Nope, in French it would TUC: Temps Universel Coordonné

That actually sounds like a cracker.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What does GMT stand for?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Greenwich Mean Time (because everything revolved around the British Empire)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That is indeed mean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thank goodness it's not Greenwich Monstrous Time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Zulu. It's shorter and cooler

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

But I have to learn how to make those clicking noises first.