AFAIK, English/German are the oddities in this regard.
I always assume the answer is "French".
Like SI (units) or CERN. And then UTC (time) is just a compromise between English and French.
Well, Russian and other Slavic languages also prefer this order, though it isn't fully mandatory there (The word endings are usually accurate enough).
In south slavic tongues, it's mostly a style decision. Putting the adjective after the verb is usually considered flowery language and mostly encountered in poetry.
I'm not so sure: Universal Time Coordinate could have as its subject "Coordinate" and not "Time", and so would make sense in English. Wild Wednesday-morning guess, however.
Now the question is...
What is it in Klingon?
why do they call International atomic time TAI instead of IAT ?
And then UTC (time) is just a compromise between English and French.
There is a continuing push to abolish leap seconds in UTC, where the proponents essentially argue that programmers are too dumb to handle them correctly. If that passes, then UTC will become synchronized with TAI, but will start diverging from UT1 (astronomical time) at the rate of about 1 second per year. This will make life easier for designers of terrestrial systems, but designers of space systems will have to switch to using UT1.
^^ Atmos clock, runs on air (literally).
So this wonder, works with the temperature change, the variation of pressure makes it work without human intervention? https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reloj_Atmos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmos_clock
Nearly a perpetual motion machine?
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