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From: meissner@xyzzy.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: X3J11 meeting notes
Message-ID: <531@xyzzy.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 88 18:45:52 GMT
References: <6829@brl-smoke.ARPA> <16100001@lan000> <6887@brl-smoke.ARPA> <4374@venera.isi.edu>
Reply-To: meissner@xyzzy.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Organization: Data General (Languages @ Research Triangle Park, NC.)
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In article <4374@venera.isi.edu> lmiller@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Larry Miller) writes:
| In article <6887@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
| >In article <16100001@lan000> iwb@lan000.UUCP writes:
| >>Is the change from GMT to UTC or UCT (Universal Coordinated Time)?
| >
| >ISO asked for "UTC" ("Universal Time Coordinated").  To me, it sounds
| >like the French messing around with things.  I honestly don't know the
| >correct official terminology for international time standards.
| 
| "Coordinated UNiversal Time"
| 
| You can see the problems with the abbreviation for this.

As I understand it, at the ISO level, there are three official languages
used, English, French, and Russian.  The committees have to go to great
pains to make sure any of the above languages is not favored by
abbreviations that make sense in one language, but not in another, hence
UTC for the Coordinated UNiversal Time.  I forget offhand, what ISO
stands for (but it sure isn't International Standards Organization).
Anyway, this is off the subject about C.
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