Time zone doesn’t affect “midday”
Midday is when the sun is at its highest point. The hottest part of the day is pretty much always a few hours after midday.
Of course there are exceptions, there’s almost always exceptions for literally everything and it’s kind of useless pointing it out.
That’s a little pedantic. The exact time isn’t really important, just that it is not exactly at midday, it’s a few hours after midday.
It’s selfish if they refuse to open up the seat if you ask.
Otherwise it’s just using free and open space for convenience until it’s needed.
There’s still four more years of this bullshit… At least…