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My guess is that some people used the term "Universal Coordinated
Time" before it got standardized to UTC.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/5/19 11:52 AM, Matt Johnson wrote:<br>
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Is there a source or a story about where "UCT" came from? Or
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<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tz-bounces@iana.org"><tz-bounces@iana.org></a> on behalf of Paul Eggert
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu"><eggert@cs.ucla.edu></a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 5, 2019 11:45 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Isiah Meadows<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Time Zone Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [tz] Why is `Etc/UCT` not an alias of
`Etc/UTC`?</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On 3/4/19 4:29 PM, Isiah Meadows
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> They seem to refer to the same thing, so it doesn't
make much sense to<br>
> me why they're considered different.<br>
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They generate different abbreviations:<br>
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$ TZ=Etc/UTC date; TZ=Etc/UCT date<br>
Tue Mar 5 19:45:10 UTC 2019<br>
Tue Mar 5 19:45:10 UCT 2019<br>
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