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.).
It’s still just Coordinated Universal Time / Temps Universel Coordonné. The “acronym” (really an initialism) does not correspond to the name in either language, other than it has the same first letters.
Because “International Organization for Standardization” would have different acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French for Organisation internationale de normalisation), its founders opted for the short form “ISO”. The story goes that ISO is derived from the Greek word “isos”, meaning equal.
Whatever the country, whatever the language, we are always ISO.
19 Comments
subtext@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 1y
In case anyone is curious, here’s what Wikipedia has to say about this:
stoy@lemmy.zip · 32 pts · 1y
So, Universal Time, Coordinated? Universal Time, Central?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 34 pts · 1y
Universal Time? Correct.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 10 pts · 1y
Universal Time Cone
The C is pronounced like th
Klear@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
No, horse. It was battery staple.
subtext@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
It’s still just Coordinated Universal Time / Temps Universel Coordonné. The “acronym” (really an initialism) does not correspond to the name in either language, other than it has the same first letters.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y
I get that, this was just me trying to find a decent way to remember it
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 1y
I go with "universal time, coordinated" in my brain
Object@sh.itjust.works · 39 pts · 1y
Why are they like this?
darkpanda@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 1y
From their website:
https://www.iso.org/about
echodot@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 1y
A good chunk of the French language is just the English language, in a French accent.
gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 1y
a good chunk of the english language is just the french language, in varying accents.
(a ton of english vocab originates from french) (source)
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
UNO, ONU, NATO, OTAN
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y
In 5 minutes in Wikipedia I found "UN, ONU, NU, YN, FN, VB, APB, AN, UM, SPB, BMG, ONX" just for the United Nations, and it's not exhaustive.
Makeshift@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 1y
I thought it was Universal Time Code
akilou@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
*nor
childOfMagenta@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Zulu
azi@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
but South Africa Standard Time is UTC+2:00
gerbler@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I was taught it stood for Universal Time Coordinate and I refuse to believe anything else.