Time zones

[nigelmercier]

Central European Time. Usually one hour ahead of UK local time (GMT +1 in winter and GMT +2 in summer).

But if Coordinated Universal Time is UTC, why isn't Central European Time ETC?

 

[PhillM]

But if Coordinated Universal Time is UTC, why isn't Central European Time ETC?

Good point, well made - but I really don't know why. I just know that it is called what it is.

 

[photodog]

Social media are fast becoming the new search engines...
Who wants some boring **** answer from a computer when you can get such personal invectiveness right here?

 

[alahol2]

Courtesy of Wikipedia:
The official notation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC. This notation arose from a desire by the International Telecommunication Union and the International Astronomical Union to use the same notation in all languages. English speakers originally proposed "CUT" (for "coordinated universal time"), while French speakers proposed "TUC" (for "temps universel coordonné"). The compromise that emerged was UTC,[10] which conforms to the pattern for the notations of the variants of Universal Time (UT0, UT1, UT2, UT1R etc.).

 

[nigelmercier]

But if Coordinated Universal Time is UTC, why isn't Central European Time ETC?

You know this was a rhetorical question, right