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In case anyone is curious, here’s what Wikipedia has to say about this:
So, Universal Time, Coordinated? Universal Time, Central?
Universal Time? Correct.
No, horse. It was battery staple.
Universal Time Cone
The C is pronounced like th
It’s still just Coordinated Universal Time / Temps Universel Coordonné. The “acronym” (really an initialism) does not correspond to the name in either language, other than it has the same first letters.
I get that, this was just me trying to find a decent way to remember it
I go with "universal time, coordinated" in my brain