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From: aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg)
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Subject: Re: `GMT' -> `UT' in news header dates
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.155327.9194@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 91 15:53:27 GMT
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In <1991Mar26.070301.13119@zoo.toronto.edu> 
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>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".  

On BBC and other shortwave english language news stations I've heard
"Universal Coordinated Time",  and *I believe* that somewhere I heard
that UTC is the acronym for "Universal Coordinated Time" in French, but
I'm afraid my French has degraded to the point where I can not determine
whether this is possibly true or not.

aem
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