>>>I often jokingly blame Disney for how I turned out -- the animated short "Donald in Mathmagic Land" ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052751/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 ) has had quite an influence on my life. And of course there's also the manga "Doraemon" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doraemon )
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>>The world turns Disney and there's nothing you can do.
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>>So you are one of the rare examples where such kind of education worked?
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>>And, by the way, I'm in upright phase. Summer time sadness will not kick in while it's gray and cold.
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>(shrug) I simply set the clocks to UTC ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time ) -- that way I need not worry about adjusting the clock between Standard and Daylight time -- all I have to do then is simply apply the appropriate offset to get the local time. Just need to make sure I'm not using classic Unix time, otherwise I could run into the 2038 problem.
>Folks often say that a stopped clock is correct two times during the day -- not quite -- in the USA (where DST is observed) there would be a problem with (2:00 .. 3:00] during the transition between standard to daylight (those times don't exist) and [1:00 .. 2:00) on day of transition from daylight to standard (when those times occur twice) -- though on the average over the entire year that it would be correct two times a day.

If you adopt to the idea of local time, synced to noon, a clock shows the right time all the time. Somewhere. Just do UTC + longitude.
This odd time zone idea is a kludge to sync railway schedule by table. We have computers now. Even the creapy constant hour we might skip. Uneven hours are such a delight, and much more fitting to human senses.

Just kidding.