[zeugma]

That’s just a translated version of UTC. For some reason, the abbreviation UTC is French, I suspect because official standards are located in Paris. Americans would have called it CUT (which would have been cooler IMO)

[x]

Not to nitpick, but that didn't sound right to me, so I looked it up.

English speakers originally proposed CUT (for "coordinated universal time"), while French speakers proposed TUC (for "temps universel coordonné"). The compromise that emerged was UTC,[7] which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time (UT0, UT1, UT2, UT1R, etc.).