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		mywittyname on Oct 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Uni... I was talking specifically about pre-WWII. My depression-era grand-parents learned it in school.

gamblor956 on Oct 22, 2019 [–]

70+ years ago is not "very recent" when talking about schooling. Public schooling has only been widely available in the US for less than 150 years and only widely mandated for children in the last 100.

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