Damn, Spain and Morocco being UTC+1 is nuts. Even France and Algeria are stretching it a bit far for my liking. And it gets even more crazy for the European countries for over half the year when they play pretendy-magic-time and go to UTC+2.
France amd Spain being +1 is apparently a relic from the 40s when Germany occupied France and the Spanish government felt they needed to switch to appease Germany. It is kinda funny neither switched back.
Similarly, this holds for the BeNeLux countries. NED: GMT +0:19:32 / +0:20 since 1937, BEL and LUX used GMT since 1918
Germany changed it in occupied territories to simplify administration.
For some reason it never changed back despite being out of natural sync.
The issue with the current time zones in Europe is that they are far from being natural... The more you go to the west the later the sun is raising and setting, the more you go to the east, the opposite. Current western European time zone is too large... There are initiatives to improve that but will it be done ?
For example: https://timeuse.barcelona/what-we-do/permanent-time-zones-eu/
Love that proposal!
My god, at this rate UTC+1 and UTC+3 will dominate the whole world by 2223!
You mean like The Netherlands will once some madman drains the seas?
That madman? Herman Sörgel
Fun! I want I Google Earth version of this with a time slider.
The Dutch timezone was actually UTC + 20 minutes until WW2.
Exactly, UTC+0020!
While every surrounding country did use offsets in full hours, mind you!
Fun fact: The stereotype that Spanish people eat much later and stay up much later than most other Europeans comes from their time zone being synced to the EU, not to the sun.
Midday is around 1:30-2pm there.
If they had the "fitting" time zone for their geographical longitude, they'd eat and sleep at the same time as everyone else."Time is an illusion anyway, who cares if noon isn't at 12?"
Looks at China: 1 time zone
"Maybe we oughta get our shit together just in case"
interesting, so if China did have time zones it would look like this
But since they are all in the green +8 time zone, that means the people on the far west side of China have to function at 5am the same way people are expected to function at 8am.
And when everybody's going to bed around 10pm, the far west of China has to go to bed at what is actually 7pm according to the sun.
"Time is an illusion anyway"
Lunchtime doubly so
You take that back!
France and Spain: See you in an hour, England!
Portugal: I gotchu fam.
I wish we had the lines to compare.
i like how instead of adding +3:30 to the ledger they just used yellow and green together
