Yeah; PCT is useful for digital systems to identify a zone that doesn’t shift time. Although personally I would have done something like put an X at the end of each zone that doesn’t shift.
Makes me wonder what other languages do for the abbreviations though.
I don’t see anything that explicitly defined why they chose PCT, but I think it seems reasonable. PST means Pacific Standard Time, and PDT means Pacific Daylight Time. I could see PCT making Pacific Constant Time, or maybe Pacific Coordinated Time (in reference to UTC). Changing the middle character seems consistent with convention for timezone abbreviations.
Yeah; PCT is useful for digital systems to identify a zone that doesn’t shift time. Although personally I would have done something like put an X at the end of each zone that doesn’t shift.
Makes me wonder what other languages do for the abbreviations though.
I don’t see anything that explicitly defined why they chose PCT, but I think it seems reasonable. PST means Pacific Standard Time, and PDT means Pacific Daylight Time. I could see PCT making Pacific Constant Time, or maybe Pacific Coordinated Time (in reference to UTC). Changing the middle character seems consistent with convention for timezone abbreviations.