[tz] Unearthly time zone in the news

[Paul Eggert]

On 4/3/24 13:14, Michael H Deckers via tz wrote:
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>     ..and both use LTC as abbreviation for Coordinated Lunar Time, not CLT.

Thanks for catching that. I updated theory.html accordingly.

I presume that, just as "UTC" doesn't stand for either the English 
"Coordinated Universal Time" nor the French "temps universel coordonné", 
the abbreviation "LTC" was chosen because it stands for neither the 
English "Coordinated Lunar Time" nor (if I have it correctly) the French 
"temps lunaire coordonné".

Or maybe they just exchanged "U" and "L" without thinking about it.

The "U" in "UTC" is completely inflated of course. It's no more 
"Universal" than the World Series is a world-wide contest. It should be 
"ETC" for "Coordinated Earth Time" or "temps terrestre coordonné".