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Coordinated universal time anchors our suffering

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UTC is the absolute standard against which all worldly time is measured. It doesn't observe daylight saving and it never changes, acting as the stubborn, unmoving anchor that highlights just how ridiculous the rest of our localized clock-shifting habits truly are.

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