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It's my understanding that we use UTC because it favours neither the english nor the french. English wanted CUT, french wanted TUC, so UTC was chosen to favour neither.

I generally prefer when we agree on a spelling, even if it isn't in English. CERN is a good example of this, no English speaker in their right mind would call it ECNR.

Yes, that's what I meant. (Though I stand corrected, UTC is not French either, but the effect is the same - we both use one.)

UTC is a hilarious acronym precisely because it is not correct in either French or English.

In French it would be TUC, in English CUT. Both parties agreed on UTC because it doesn’t give either language primacy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time