Why is it “Universal Time Coordinated”?
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The UTC is a measure for coordinating activities in multiple regions of the earth in timing. It means "Universal Time Coordinated". What does that mean grammatically? Can you unravel this message with more signal words?
I would say "Universally Coordinated Time" which means that the same time is used by many people - the time is universally coordinated.
The other statement means almost the same if not the same, but I don't know how to understand this grammar construction / word construction. Thanks.
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The UTC is a measure for coordinating activities in multiple regions of the earth in timing. It means "Universal Time Coordinated". What does that mean grammatically? Can you unravel this message with more signal words?
I would say "Universally Coordinated Time" which means that the same time is used by many people - the time is universally coordinated.
The other statement means almost the same if not the same, but I don't know how to understand this grammar construction / word construction. Thanks.
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The UTC is a measure for coordinating activities in multiple regions of the earth in timing. It means "Universal Time Coordinated". What does that mean grammatically? Can you unravel this message with more signal words?
I would say "Universally Coordinated Time" which means that the same time is used by many people - the time is universally coordinated.
The other statement means almost the same if not the same, but I don't know how to understand this grammar construction / word construction. Thanks.
meaning word-usage
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The UTC is a measure for coordinating activities in multiple regions of the earth in timing. It means "Universal Time Coordinated". What does that mean grammatically? Can you unravel this message with more signal words?
I would say "Universally Coordinated Time" which means that the same time is used by many people - the time is universally coordinated.
The other statement means almost the same if not the same, but I don't know how to understand this grammar construction / word construction. Thanks.
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UTC does not stand for Universal Time Coordinated.
It stands for Coordinated Universal Time, at least in English.
From Wikipedia:
The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC. This abbreviation arose from a desire by the International Telecommunication Union and the International Astronomical Union to use the same abbreviation in all languages. English speakers originally proposed CUT (for "coordinated universal time"), while French speakers proposed TUC (for "temps universel coordonné"). The compromise that emerged was UTC, which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time (UT0, UT1, UT2, UT1R, etc.)
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UTC does not stand for Universal Time Coordinated.
It stands for Coordinated Universal Time, at least in English.
From Wikipedia:
The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC. This abbreviation arose from a desire by the International Telecommunication Union and the International Astronomical Union to use the same abbreviation in all languages. English speakers originally proposed CUT (for "coordinated universal time"), while French speakers proposed TUC (for "temps universel coordonné"). The compromise that emerged was UTC, which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time (UT0, UT1, UT2, UT1R, etc.)
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UTC does not stand for Universal Time Coordinated.
It stands for Coordinated Universal Time, at least in English.
From Wikipedia:
The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC. This abbreviation arose from a desire by the International Telecommunication Union and the International Astronomical Union to use the same abbreviation in all languages. English speakers originally proposed CUT (for "coordinated universal time"), while French speakers proposed TUC (for "temps universel coordonné"). The compromise that emerged was UTC, which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time (UT0, UT1, UT2, UT1R, etc.)
answered 3 hours ago
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Nice, I appreciate that.
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UTC does not stand for Universal Time Coordinated.
It stands for Coordinated Universal Time, at least in English.
From Wikipedia:
The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC. This abbreviation arose from a desire by the International Telecommunication Union and the International Astronomical Union to use the same abbreviation in all languages. English speakers originally proposed CUT (for "coordinated universal time"), while French speakers proposed TUC (for "temps universel coordonné"). The compromise that emerged was UTC, which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time (UT0, UT1, UT2, UT1R, etc.)
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UTC does not stand for Universal Time Coordinated.
It stands for Coordinated Universal Time, at least in English.
From Wikipedia:
The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC. This abbreviation arose from a desire by the International Telecommunication Union and the International Astronomical Union to use the same abbreviation in all languages. English speakers originally proposed CUT (for "coordinated universal time"), while French speakers proposed TUC (for "temps universel coordonné"). The compromise that emerged was UTC, which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time (UT0, UT1, UT2, UT1R, etc.)
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