UTC is "Coordinated Universal Time", not "Universal Time Coordinated". Yes the acronym doesn't match. It was designed in committee. The French speakers wanted TUC, for "Temps Universel Coordonné" , and the English speakers wanted CUT for "Coordinated Universal Time", so they compromised, and made it officially UTC, so it matches nothing.

August 30, 2017 at 12:19PM via Facebook