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Re:Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and improve you... by OJFord on Friday April 14, 2023 @06:55AM (#35567962)
Isn't it inconvenient and search result partitioning to use this? I haven't come across/noticed it before. In English for example we use the French order acronym UTC, not UCT or CUT. (Though to be fair in the UK outside of a computing context we mostly use GMT.)
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Re:Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and improve you... by d1sxeyes on Friday April 14, 2023 @07:15AM (#35568130)
UTC is a hilarious acronym precisely because it is not correct in either French or English.

In French it would be TUC, in English CUT. Both parties agreed on UTC because it doesn’t give either language primacy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time

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Re:Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and improve you... by walthamstow on Friday April 14, 2023 @07:59AM (#35568487)
I generally prefer when we agree on a spelling, even if it isn't in English. CERN is a good example of this, no English speaker in their right mind would call it ECNR.
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Re:Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and improve you... by OJFord on Friday April 14, 2023 @12:20PM (#35571275)
Yes, that's what I meant. (Though I stand corrected, UTC is not French either, but the effect is the same - we both use one.)
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Re:Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and improve you... by soneil on Friday April 14, 2023 @09:06AM (#35569167)
It's my understanding that we use UTC because it favours neither the english nor the french. English wanted CUT, french wanted TUC, so UTC was chosen to favour neither.
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