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