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You're right... I'm french ;-) Sorry about the wrong acronym (RGPD = GDPR)

• OJFord 4y ago
  Isn't it inconvenient and search result partitioning to use this? I haven't come across/noticed it before. In English for example we use the French order acronym UTC, not UCT or CUT. (Though to be fair in the UK outside of a computing context we mostly use GMT.)
  • d1sxeyes 4y ago
    UTC is a hilarious acronym precisely because it is not correct in either French or English. In French it would be TUC, in English CUT. Both parties agreed on UTC because it doesn’t give either language primacy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
  • walthamstow 4y ago
    I generally prefer when we agree on a spelling, even if it isn't in English. CERN is a good example of this, no English speaker in their right mind would call it ECNR.
    • OJFord 4y ago
      Yes, that's what I meant. (Though I stand corrected, UTC is not French either, but the effect is the same - we both use one.)
  • soneil 4y ago
    It's my understanding that we use UTC because it favours neither the english nor the french. English wanted CUT, french wanted TUC, so UTC was chosen to favour neither.