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gmiller123456 on July 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: It’s time to leave the leap second in the past

The actual name is French: temps atomique international. I guess we're lucky at least all of the first letters are the same.

denton-scratch on July 26, 2022 [–]

Coordinated Universal Time in French is Temps Universel Coordonee (give or take an accent). So that should be TUC. I don't think there's any language in which UTC stands for anything. It's a fake acronym.

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