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[–] Resol@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let's all say it this way now:

Today is 2023, December 12. The time as of this comment being written is 15:28 (3:28pm) GMT.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Should be UTC instead of GMT.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They're technically the same anyway, only the name is different.

Also, I hate the name UTC, simply because the order of the letters of the acronym don't match up with the first letters of the words of which the acronym stands for, which is Coordinated Universal Time, and not Universal Time Coordinated like I always thought.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Huh, I always thought it was French, but Wikipedia says UTC was a compromise intentionally neither French nor English. Politics is weird

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Nope, in French it would TUC: Temps Universel Coordonné

That actually sounds like a cracker.

[–] Kase@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Greenwich Mean Time (because everything revolved around the British Empire)

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Thank goodness it's not Greenwich Monstrous Time.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Zulu. It's shorter and cooler

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

But I have to learn how to make those clicking noises first.