From edb69578ed74ff04ab78ab953355faa343a7e0ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
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Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 21:15:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [3.13] gh-80421: Correct definitions of time (GH-130984)
 (#131022)

gh-80421: Correct definitions of time (GH-130984)

Based on the Wikipedia article, UTC is better said to be a successor than a renaming of GTC and language agnostic rather than an English-French compromise.
(cherry picked from commit 98fa4a49fecbac3c990a25ce5d300592dad31be0)

Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <89152624+StanFromIreland@users.noreply.github.com>
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 Doc/library/time.rst | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/time.rst b/Doc/library/time.rst
index 804e2679027..542493a82af 100644
--- a/Doc/library/time.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/time.rst
@@ -52,9 +52,13 @@ An explanation of some terminology and conventions is in order.
    single: Coordinated Universal Time
    single: Greenwich Mean Time
 
-* UTC is Coordinated Universal Time (formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time, or
-  GMT).  The acronym UTC is not a mistake but a compromise between English and
-  French.
+* UTC is `Coordinated Universal Time`_ and superseded `Greenwich Mean Time`_ or
+  GMT as the basis of international timekeeping. The acronym UTC is not a
+  mistake but conforms to an earlier, language-agnostic naming scheme for time
+  standards such as UT0, UT1, and UT2.
+
+.. _Coordinated Universal Time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
+.. _Greenwich Mean Time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time
 
 .. index:: single: Daylight Saving Time