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Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 26-May-2022 09:47:15 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

It's fun enough that French initialisms are often backwards compared to English or Swedish (e.g. OTAN vs NATO), but today I also realized that on a Swedish or German compass East will be O (for Ost), but on a French compass West will be O (for Ouest), and also in relevant abbreviations for organisations.

TIL the West African States Central Bank is of course the Bank Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, BCEAO.

Actually English is middle-endian here and the official English is the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_… .

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- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 27-May-2022 01:18:57 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
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  - Ludovic Courtès
  @civodul Oh yeah, that's also mixed-endian!
  
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- Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Friday, 27-May-2022 01:18:58 UTC Ludovic Courtès
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  @clacke Speaking of which, the story of “UTC” is fun:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC#Etymology
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  1. Coordinated Universal Time
    
    Coordinated Universal Time or UTC is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is within about 1 second of mean solar time at 0° longitude (at the IERS Reference Meridian as the currently used prime meridian) such as UT1 and is not adjusted for daylight saving time. It is effectively a successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The coordination of time and frequency transmissions around the world began on 1 January 1960. UTC was first officially adopted as CCIR Recommendation 374, Standard-Frequency and Time-Signal Emissions, in 1963, but the official abbreviation of UTC and the official English name of Coordinated Universal Time (along with the French equivalent) were not adopted until 1967.The system has been adjusted several times, including a brief period during which the time-coordination radio signals broadcast both UTC and "Stepped Atomic Time (SAT)" before a new UTC was adopted in 1970 and implemented in 1972. This change also adopted leap seconds to simplify future adjustments. This CCIR Recommendation...
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