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Re:Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal ... by rsynnott on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:48AM (#21325039)
Using GMT would be quite confusing, because most GMT-using countries are also DST-using and people in those countries tend to (strictly speaking incorrectly) refer to the timezone as GMT all year round.

There's also a not-insignificant risk that the UK moves timezone at some point; if it stays in Europe it will likely be required to drop DST, and may end up on UTC+1. This would make GMT even more confusion-prone.

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Re:Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal ... by TimMurnaghan on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:03PM (#21326023)
> people in those countries tend to (strictly speaking incorrectly) refer to the timezone as GMT all year round. Not really. I've found that mistake much more common in Americans. Calling the time in London GMT got baked in to some software (ing Outlook) but locals perfectly well understand BST.
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