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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Should be UTC instead of GMT.

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

They're technically the same anyway, only the name is different.

Also, I hate the name UTC, simply because the order of the letters of the acronym don't match up with the first letters of the words of which the acronym stands for, which is Coordinated Universal Time, and not Universal Time Coordinated like I always thought.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Huh, I always thought it was French, but Wikipedia says UTC was a compromise intentionally neither French nor English. Politics is weird

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Nope, in French it would TUC: Temps Universel Coordonné

That actually sounds like a cracker.

[-] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Zulu. It's shorter and cooler

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

But I have to learn how to make those clicking noises first.

[-] Kase@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago
[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Greenwich Mean Time (because everything revolved around the British Empire)

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