I’d bet it actually simplifies as least as many things as it breaks. Basically all computers already keep track of time as a count of seconds since a UTC epoch anyway, and then do timezone conversions on top of that.

I am pretty sure Ubuntu is still far and away the most popular desktop distro. For servers I would have guessed it was something like RedHat/CentOS or possibly Debian.

Huh? It’s referenced by name right there in the screenshot…

WebPlotDigitizer! It’s a great tool.

Here is my attempt at digitizing that plot and then log-scaling the vertical axis.