My company shorted everyone who worked daylight savings day an hour. We didn't even work past 2am 😭🙏

Though we're unionized so everyone who came to me got penalty pay 🙏

Then let me extol the virtues benefits of going back to a base12 standard for all our small number systems.

No? UTC by definition doesn't know time zones.

Let's say the European goes to work at 8 o'clock UTC. The American in this example goes to work 6 hours later at 14 o'clock UTC. Both now exactly when the other one is in office. Time zones aren't needed here.

Time zones are an invention to keep the zero hour (for hour counting) at about the same local time - midnight. Midnight was easier to determine that UTC (or GMT). A peasant could do it in a day without the help of expensive tools everywhere on Earth. As a matter of fact almost each city in medieval times had its own local time. To get that sorted out they where clustered into time zones.

My company is fully remote. We use the working hours that people set on their calendar, because even people in the same time zone may not have the same working hours. My working hours start 30 minutes later than someone one timezone to my west.

All this time I was wondering what black sorcery DST was performing to magically "add more sunlight" when it was simply the matter of setting the clock 1hr early.

I would rather go with having separate schedules for winter and summer for everything; even thinking about adopting DST is nauseating for me. I enjoy having a uniform time scale independent from external environmental factors.

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Per the Wikipedia article:

It is a common myth in the United States that DST was first implemented for the benefit of farmers.[38][39][40] In reality, farmers have been one of the strongest lobbying groups against DST since it was first implemented.[38][39][40] The factors that influence farming schedules, such as morning dew and dairy cattle's readiness to be milked, are ultimately dictated by the sun, so the clock change introduces unnecessary challenges.[38][40][41]

TL:DR for the rest of the history and rationale: Most of this was rich people wanting more time for their personal hobbies, other people’s sleep and health be damned.