local time (was: something about Celeste)

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Mon Dec 6 11:02:31 UTC 1999


Stan Heckman <stan at stanheckman.com> wrote:
> A brief summary of time systems is available at
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part3/section-5.html

This is a great summary!  And it has a great trivia item on how UTC =
"Coordinated Universal Time":

    The acronym UTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time.  In 1970
    when this system was being developed by the International
    Telecommunication Union, it felt it was best to designate a single
    abbreviation for use in all languages in order to minimize
    confusion.  Unanimous agreement could not be achieved on using
    either the English word order, CUT, or the French word order, TUC,
    so a compromise using neither, UTC, was adopted.


Man, those French and English really have it for each other as far as
tradition goes!


Lex





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