Re: Time-Zone juggling
| From: | tedd | Date: | Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:34:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Time-Zone juggling | ||
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At 7:06 PM +0000 11/8/06, Colin Guthrie wrote:
Going a bit OT but who cares :) tedd wrote:Interesting, apparently ego's at work. As such, they could have used: CUTC Which stands for Coordinated Universal Time, with Croissant, no? tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.comI just wonder how they came up with the acronym of "UTC" for Coordinated Universal Time?In 1970 the Coordinated Universal Time system was devised by an international advisory group of technical experts within the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The ITU felt it was best to designate a single abbreviation for use in all languages in order to minimize confusion. Since unanimous agreement could not be achieved on using either the English word order, CUT, or the French word order, TUC, the acronym UTC was chosen as a compromise. Copy+Paste from: http://tf.nist.gov/general/misc.htm#Anchor-14550 Col :)