Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal Time

Re:Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal ... by robbrown451 on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @09:53AM (#21323581)

Calling it BC and AD isn't worshipping God or Jesus, really any more than calling it Saturday is worshipping the Roman God Saturn.

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Re:Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal ... by acheron on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @10:03AM (#21323672)

Remember to make your sacrifice to Tíw this morning.

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Re:Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal ... by velcrovan on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @10:15AM (#21323803)

Put the Thor back in Thursday! Damn secularists

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Re:Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal ... by Nasrudith on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @10:10AM (#21323750)

Really the inaccuracy alone would be a decent reason to prefer BCE/CE over BC/AD even if devout.

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Re:Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal ... by ChainOfFools on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @12:44PM (#21325767)

BCE/CE at least have the benefit of a consistent language backing them, rather than English for BC and Latin for AD.

maybe we drop one vestigial nod to the middle ages and compromise: BC/YL

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Re:Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal ... by robbrown451 on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @06:28PM (#21329094)

What's the inaccuracy? Are you speaking of when Jesus Christ was born? At one point it was based on an estimation of that, but for a long time it has been standardized and isn't related to that anymore. There is a very specific year that is "year 1".

I have a bit of an issue with it because it does seem to endorse a religion, but still.

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Re:Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal ... by KibbutzDalia on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @10:09AM (#21323744)

And that’s why I don’t use that name.

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