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This is why I've wanted to move to local solar time. I already live by local solar time by some aspects of my life (sleep) https://suncalc.org

We should have local solar time and universal time. That is we should have three different kinds of time. Human time (solar) and computer time (milliseconds since 1970). And a third for coordinating things over a distance, universal.

We should absolutely get rid of day light savings.

I guess it's more convincing to argue it the other direction. We should have universal time but if you want to know what the sun is doing what could be better than solar time? You might convince yourself you don't care what the sun is doing but then why isn't everyone jumping in on universal. To the degree anyone doesn't like universal it's about the sun.

On suncalc see how it's over an hour off. How could time get over an hour off from reality. And it can get up to an hour off the other direction too. It can get up to two hours off in the current direction. 8am mean solar time + time zone + daylight savings means nothing in solar terms if it has hours of deviation. What I was saying was only for one location so if we allow comparison with both location and day we are talking about four hours of deviation in what that can mean.

So let's nope out of that. Universal time, and if you want to know what sun is doing solar. Your fitbit, and phone, and laptop can do the math and physical clocks might be adjusted every now and again, and with getting rid of time zone and daylight savings will be far more accurate even if you don't adjust them.