UTC
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
A compromise initialism between English CUT (“Coordinated Universal Time”) and French TUC (“Temps Universel Coordonné”), unofficially giving “Universal Time Coordinated” and “Universel Temps Coordonné”.
Proper noun
UTC
- Coordinated Universal Time, which is the international standard for civil time and the Internet.
- Synonym: GMT
Derived terms
See also
- GMT (“Greenwich Mean Time”)
- UT or UT1 (“Universal Time”)
- Zulu time
- military time
Further reading
- Coordinated Universal Time on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
Proper noun
UTC
Phrase
UTC