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Howard Barnes on June 09, 2001 at 22:41:09:
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The acronym UTC stands for "Coordinated Universal Time" NOT "Universal Coordinated Time" NOR Universal Time Coordinated".
Please visit the following web sites for conclusive proof!
http://www.bipm.fr/enus/5_Scientific/c_time/time_server.html (BIPM Time Section; the world's GOVERNING BODY for civil atomic time-scales.),
http://www.bipm.fr/enus/5_Scientific/c_time/time_1.html (BIPM Time Section), (for the French version of these two web pages, click on 'Version française'.)
http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/earthor/utc/UTC.html (The International Earth Rotation Service),
http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/leaflets/time/time.html (The Royal Observatory Greenwich),
http://ecco.bsee.swin.edu.au/chronos/GMT-explained.html (a good history of UTC and GMT),
http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/dir-009/_1277.htm (US. National Institute of Standards & Technology),
http://www.npl.co.uk/npl/ctm/time_scales.html (UK's National Physical Laboratory),
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/systime.html &
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/UT.html (US Naval Observatory),
http://www.itu.int/radioclub/rr/arts02.htm (The International Telecommunications Union).
Regards to one and all,
Howard Barnes.
GEORGI DOBROVOLSKI SOLAR OBSERVATORY.
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