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Nitpick: UTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time. The ordering of the letters was chosen to not match the English or the French names so neither language got

• stavros 10mo ago
  It also stands for Universel Temps Coordonné.
  • Aloisius 10mo ago
    It's le temps universel coordonné in French.
• userbinator 10mo ago
  Universal Time, Coordinated.
  • ChadMoran 10mo ago
    This is how I say it in my head.
    • lioeters 10mo ago
      Now every time I see UTC, I hear the voice of Yoda: "Universal Time, Coordinated it is."
• ambicapter 10mo ago
  That's an interesting rationale.
  • hunter2_ 10mo ago
    Reminds me of when a group is divided into two parts, dubbed group 1 and group A, such that neither feels secondary.
    • withinboredom 10mo ago
      And if you have 3, group 1, group A, and group Alpha. Beyond that, just use colors.
  • asdfman123 10mo ago
    The trick is making sure no one is happy with the final outcome
• O5vYtytb 10mo ago
  That doesn't quite match what the wikipedia page says: > The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC. This abbreviation comes as a result of the International Telecommunication Union and the International Astronomical Union wanting to use the same abbreviation in all languages. The compromise that emerged was UTC, which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time (UT0, UT1, UT2, UT1R, etc.).
  • shawnz 10mo ago
    Follow the citation: https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/how-utcnist-related-coordinated-universal-time-utc-international#7114136 https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/how-utc... > ... in English the abbreviation for coordinated universal time would be CUT, while in French the abbreviation for "temps universel coordonné" would be TUC. To avoid appearing to favor any particular language, the abbreviation UTC was selected.
• dagurp 10mo ago
  It's also the time in Iceland, conveniently