At 7:06 PM +0000 11/8/06, Colin Guthrie wrote:
Going a bit OT but who cares :)
tedd wrote:
I 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 :)
Interesting, apparently ego's at work. As such, they could have used:
CUTC
Which stands for Coordinated Universal Time, with Croissant, no?
tedd
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