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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: `GMT' -> `UT' in news header dates
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.164620.28348@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1991 16:46:20 GMT
References: <1991Mar25.030637.8126@twinsun.com> <1991Mar25.211915.8268@watmath.waterloo.edu> <91Mar25.204233edt.1103@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> <1991Mar26.070301.13119@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Mar26.155327.9194@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Mar26.155327.9194@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu writes:
>"Universal Coordinated Time",  and *I believe* that somewhere I heard
>that UTC is the acronym for "Universal Coordinated Time" in French...

I forgot the "Coordinated".

As for French, mine is fairly rusty too, but the acronym there would be
TUC almost certainly.  My understanding is that UTC was *deliberately*
chosen *not* to be an acronym in any specific nasty colonial language. :-)
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