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Same question I asked Kusimulkku: do you not even know anyone who works second or third shift? Because we ask eachother about specific sleep schedule times all the time, ie, its a very standard question for most working people.
I used to work both.
With universal time, the answer is meaningless without also knowing where they live. If you have a friend who is traveling and says "Oh man, I stayed up until 3AM last night." Did they go to bed early or late? Not only do you have to clarify their normal sleep schedule, you also have to figure out where they currently are before "3AM" has any relevant meaning.
It's objectively worse for communication. As I've mentioned to other posters, we already have GMT if you want to use that. Let me know how well people understand you when using only GMT for scheduling.
I'm glad GMT exists as the middle point for us to use personalized time zones, but don't want to lose that "midday" is when the sun is high in the sky and "midnight" is partway through the dark time.
"Did they go to bed early or late?" ... they went to bed x hours ago. If anything, the math is easier when your 3am is also their 3am(although am/pm would also have to go out the window). Time-zones or no doesn't tell you when they got up or started working without you asking either.
What if the story is from a week ago? Yes, your 3am happens at the same time as their 3am, but your 'night' is still their 'day'.
You'd have to intuitively know every time zone and their offset in order to have an immediate understanding the way you do now that 3AM is the middle of the night. It requires an additional question or lookup table, which makes it objectively worse of a system for humans to use and remember.