[brudgers]

UTC does not bear an appreciably worse relationship to my local solar time than GMT. For that matter, at the granularity of seconds my time zone is pretty far off from solar time and 20 miles down the road is about as bad but an hour earlier.

Clocks are useful for coordinating human events. The idea that they have some deep relationship to the cosmos is a conceit as useless as the geocentric solar system model.

[c22]

Except historically some humans have found it useful to coordinate certain events to, say, recur at the same time of winter every year so suddenly a deeper relationship to the cosmos becomes necessary.

[brudgers]

By "deep of winter" can I assume you were referring to July?

[c22]

No, winter was an arbitrary example. Humans need to track yearly events during all seasons.