And just to clarify, I was suggesting initially to do the second, make `Etc/UCT` an alias for `Etc/UTC`. ----- Isiah Meadows contact@isiahmeadows.com www.isiahmeadows.com On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 8:17 PM Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
On Mar 5, 2019, at 3:21 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
On 3/5/19 3:07 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
Is there any information about whether "UTC" or "UCT" is the more commonly used abbreviation in documents in English?
"UTC" is far more common. For example, for me Google reports about 4,220 hits for the query "Universal Coordinated Time (UCT)" and about 1,080,000 hits for "Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)". For Google Scholar the numbers are 210 and 11,800 respectively. For Google Books they are 493 and 12,500 respectively. In all cases the double-quote characters were in the query.
My vague impression is that "UCT" was formerly more popular than it is now, but it's never been as popular as "UTC".
As I suspected.
So, yes, if Etc/UTC were to be an alias for Etc/UCT, and thus gave UTC as the abbreviation, there would probably be a lot of pushback.
If, however, Etc/UCT were an alias for Etc/UTC, it would give UTC as the abbreviation, and there might not be much pushback from that.