The statement is “smarter”, not “possesses more information”. None of the things you listed (LLMs, libraries, Wikipedia, etc.) have any capacity to reason.

Ioniq?

Username checks out.

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.

WebPlotDigitizer! It’s a great tool.

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

I haven’t heard this before. Why do you say that?