Re^2: Convert date & time to UNIX time

"UTC" isn't French. It would be "TUC" in French. It's a compromise that uses the letters from both the French and English acronym while using neither.

The metric unit system is known as "SI", the French acronym for "Système International d'Unités". Maybe you were thinking of that.

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Re^3: Convert date & time to UNIX time by Marshall (Canon) on Aug 04, 2009 at 20:51 UTC
I didn't know the politics of UTC. But makes sense, sometimes a good compromise is sometimes one that makes everybody a little bit unhappy! On other abbreviations, folks may come across "Z", acronym "Zulu". 13:15 Z would be "thirteen fifteen Zulu". Zulu is an abbreviation of an abbreviation! When handwritten, often a "-" is drawn through the Z to make it less confusable with the number "2". Z, GMT, UTC basically all mean the same thing.	[reply]

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Re^3: Convert date & time to UNIX time
by Marshall (Canon) on Aug 04, 2009 at 20:51 UTC

On other abbreviations, folks may come across "Z", acronym "Zulu". 13:15 Z would be "thirteen fifteen Zulu". Zulu is an abbreviation of an abbreviation! When handwritten, often a "-" is drawn through the Z to make it less confusable with the number "2". Z, GMT, UTC basically all mean the same thing.

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