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by jamiehall 602 days ago
> Btw it’s called UTC (Universal Time Coordinated? huh?) because the same folks who publish UTC also publish UT1, which is UTC sans the leap seconds.

I’m not sure that’s right! According to legend among metrologists I’ve talked to, “UTC” was chosen as a compromise candidate: it makes sense as an acronym in neither English nor French.

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So like ISO, then.

Which is not an acronym, btw, it's just styled in all caps, and is to be pronounced "iso" rather than "eye-ess-oh".