alt Hacker NewsNitpick: UTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time. The ordering of the letters was chosen to not match the English or the French names so neither language got preference.
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ambicapter • yesterday at 11:17 PM
That's an interesting rationale.
userbinator • yesterday at 11:16 PM
Universal Time, Coordinated.
That doesn't quite match what the wikipedia page says:
> The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC. This abbreviation comes as a result of the International Telecommunication Union and the International Astronomical Union wanting to use the same abbreviation in all languages. The compromise that emerged was UTC, which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time (UT0, UT1, UT2, UT1R, etc.).