Re: make standard If-Modified-Since headers

["Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Robert J. Chassell <bob@rattlesnake.com> wrote:

> UTC is the French
>  abbreviation for Universal Coordinated Time

"Why is UTC used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal Time instead of CUT?

      In 1970 the Coordinated Universal Time system was devised by an
international advisory group of technical experts within the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The ITU felt it was best
to designate a single abbreviation for use in all languages in order
to minimize confusion. Since unanimous agreement could not be achieved
on using either the English word order, CUT, or the French word order,
TUC, the acronym UTC was chosen as a compromise."

From http://tf.nist.gov/general/misc.htm#Anchor-14550 which is as
official as it gets.

             Juanma