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Spain has long been suspected to suffer from their timezone choice. I do remember reading about that problem before, and a fast Google search finds several arti

Spain has long been suspected to suffer from their timezone choice. I do remember reading about that problem before, and a fast Google search finds several articles discussing the issue. (For example https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/22/spaniards-sleep-time-zone-spain https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/22/spania...) Up to a certain point, countries adapt. For example, Germany and France are in the same timezone, but their schedule is shifted. This can be easily seen when looking at the TV schedules. In Germany, evening TV starts at 20:15 (the start of movies, ...). In France it's more like 21:00. When I lived there it was 20:50, but TF1 now seems to start at 21:05. German TV: https://www.zdf.de/live-tv https://www.zdf.de/live-tv French TV: https://www.programme-tv.net/programme/chaine/programme-tf1-19.html https://www.programme-tv.net/programme/chaine/programme-tf1-... Similarly, schools and kindergardens are usually not at the same time. This local shifting works more or less, but can't be stretched too far. Especially multinational companies have expectations that workers come in at certain times. This is the problem that Spain faces. (I couldn't easily check by how much Spanish are shifted as Spanish TV schedules don't seem to coordinated like in France or Germany).

izacus 7y ago
Spain is, however, thought to be 2hrs 30mins ahead of "sun" time, not a mere one hour we're talking about here.
- pacificmint 7y ago
  > thought to be 2hrs 30mins ahead of "sun" time Spain is certainly ahead by a lot, but the 2:30 is for Galicia which is the westernmost tip of Spain (which is on the same longitude as Portugal, which is in a different time Zone). For most of Spain it’s less, tough still a lot.
pacificmint 7y ago
Here is a great map [1] that shows how much each place is offset vs solar time. Spain is shifted pretty far, but some places are even further offset. Large parts of Russia and China, but also Alaska and Argentina. Also, since the OP concerns Canada, worth noting that the map shows Canada being more shifted than the US, which I didn’t expect. [1] https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-wrong-is-your-time-zone-1528570887 https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-wrong-is-your-time-zone-15285708...

izacus 7y ago

Spain is, however, thought to be 2hrs 30mins ahead of "sun" time, not a mere one hour we're talking about here.

pacificmint 7y ago
> thought to be 2hrs 30mins ahead of "sun" time Spain is certainly ahead by a lot, but the 2:30 is for Galicia which is the westernmost tip of Spain (which is on the same longitude as Portugal, which is in a different time Zone). For most of Spain it’s less, tough still a lot.

pacificmint 7y ago

Here is a great map [1] that shows how much each place is offset vs solar time. Spain is shifted pretty far, but some places are even further offset. Large parts of Russia and China, but also Alaska and Argentina. Also, since the OP concerns Canada, worth noting that the map shows Canada being more shifted than the US, which I didn’t expect. [1] https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-wrong-is-your-time-zone-1528570887 https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-wrong-is-your-time-zone-15285708...