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Bill Willyard
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 Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:24 am Post subject: UTC |
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Lynn, maybe this will help some.
http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/world.html
Bill W.
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>What bothers me about the UTC thing is that it stands for (I've been told, and I have read) Coordinated >Universal Time. If so, why is it not abbreviated CTU?
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Michel
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:03 am Post subject: UTC |
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Yes Bill, but it doesn't say why the acronym has the first letter, last. So, for the benefit of Lynn, let's create a fictive story:
On the first of May 1968, Monsieur Jérôme Potdevin, approched the "Commission Internationale des Poids et Mesures" with the following:
- "Oh là, là! Greenwich, merde alors! It iz cauled: Universel Taime Coordinné! You mai caul it UTC! Voilà!"
To which, very politely, Lord Humbert Charles Chicklebroom, honorable president of the said commission, answered:
- "I say, good show, old chap! UTC it will be! But, if you don't mind, we will call it Coordinated Universal Time."
- "Mais oui!"
- "May we? ... of course you may, old chap!"
- ??
.. ok, ok, I'll shut up now! 
Cheers,
Michel
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Lynn Matteson
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:07 am Post subject: UTC |
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Thanks for the TRUE story, Michel. Until you enlightened me about the
infamous gentlemen just noted, I began to think that it was another of
those military descriptions like "boot, arctic" or "jacket, flying."
This time thing would then become "Universal Time, Coordinated". So to
make me shut up about this problem, I'll accept that the military got
in there and screwed it up.
And say, thinking of good old Lord Chicklebroom, did he make the cut in
the last election, or did he get voted out? I never personally liked
the guy...
Lynn
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On Tuesday, October 17, 2006, at 09:02 AM, Michel Verheughe wrote:
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> Lynn, maybe this will help some.
> http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/world.html
Yes Bill, but it doesn't say why the acronym has the first letter,
last. So, for the benefit of Lynn, let's create a fictive story:
On the first of May 1968, Monsieur Jérôme Potdevin, approched the
"Commission Internationale des Poids et Mesures" with the following:
- "Oh là, là! Greenwich, merde alors! It iz cauled: Universel Taime
Coordinné! You mai caul it UTC! Voilà!"
To which, very politely, Lord Humbert Charles Chicklebroom, honorable
president of the said commission, answered:
- "I say, good show, old chap! UTC it will be! But, if you don't mind,
we will call it Coordinated Universal Time."
- "Mais oui!"
- "May we? ... of course you may, old chap!"
- ??
... ok, ok, I'll shut up now!
Cheers,
Michel
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