story time. or anecdote time? maybe if it's interesting it's a story! anyway
in the ancient, forgotten past, i worked in the logistics industry, and there was a brief, doomed experiment with using internet time, or something like internet time. (it's been nearly two decades, so the details are fuzzy. "fingerprints on an abandoned handrail", as bob mortimer said.)
"why would the industry do that", you ask; "that doesn't make any sense", you say. and you're right. but you have to understand that logistics (specifically interstate freight) makes the timekeeping of DST (not all of the US observes it!) and time zones much more complicated.
thousands of trucks driving millions of combined millions through every time zone, through DST and non-DST cities/regions, and you need to know where all of them are, what time they got there, what time they'll get where they're going, etc. and you need to know all of that in the local time of their departure, in your local time, and in the local time of their destination, etc. if the origin, current location, and destination are each in different time zones, you need three different times for one moment in time—maybe more if you're not in any of those time zones or if someone outside of those time zones needs an update. for 10 or 100 trucks, it's not too bad; for 1000s of trucks, human and computer errors create cascading timekeeping accuracies.
so there was the aforementioned brief, doomed experiment to "standardize" time to internet time (or, as i said, something like internet time). a few companies' tracking systems implemented it. so, why was the experiment brief and doomed? because it's like that classic* joke** about a chain of translations. "that's just what we need, Niles—a fourth language!" all the experiment did was add "a fourth language" to the system, which confused most people and annoyed everyone. i think it lasted a week.
*I Love Lucy does the joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xle3I-5nfpI
**Frasier does the joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe_IIyjiBJg