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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!
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
Portugal was understandably like "nah fuck you guys". Still like a bit lonely on a map though.
Otherwise the people on the Azores would go nuts.
Azores is UTC-1 anyway.
Yes, the difference to the mother country would be even larger.
My god, at this rate UTC+1 and UTC+3 will dominate the whole world by 2223!
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!
France and Spain: See you in an hour, England!
Portugal: I gotchu fam.
i like how instead of adding +3:30 to the ledger they just used yellow and green together