Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: `GMT' -> `UT' in news header dates
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.070301.13119@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1991 07:03:01 GMT
References: <1991Mar25.030637.8126@twinsun.com> <1991Mar25.211915.8268@watmath.waterloo.edu> <91Mar25.204233edt.1103@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <91Mar25.204233edt.1103@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) writes:
>>Don't you mean "UTC"?  I've never heard it called "UT".
>
>RFC822 and 1123 call it "UT".  Canadian network status reports call it UTC :-)

As I understand the situation, the *English* name is "Universal Time",
but the *standard Latin-alphabet* abbreviation -- which isn't an acronym
for anything in particular in any specific Latin-alphabet language -- is
"UTC".  "UT" is improper; you are supposed to use "UTC" if your character
set can possibly write it that way.  The point of this is to have an
internationally-accepted abbreviation that is not language-specific.
"GMT" is understood almost everywhere, but it tends to irritate the
non-English-speaking users. :-)
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