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From: fisher@star.dec.com (Burns Fisher ZKO1-1/D42 DTN 381-1466)
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Subject: Coordinated Universal Time
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Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 22:07:02 EDT
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>> Universal time is actually just another name for Greenwich mean time.
> 
>It's worse than that.  A while back I called WWV here in town, and was
>told that (as far as the fellow I talked with knew), the proper name, as
>is used by WWV, is "coordinated universal time".  This should be
>abbreviated CUT, but I've seen it as UCT instead.
> 
UCT are the initials in French.

It was my understanding that UT was actually slightly different from GMT
in that UT explicitly includes all the corrections (leap second, etc) that are
broadcast on WWV, while GMT is not defined so precisely.  (Note that I don't
mean to imply that WWV defines UT...I always imagined that it was defined
by the same folks who are the keepers of the standard meter in Paris.)

Burns