Wednesday 14 December 2016

A time zone oddity in Spain...

"Humans are naturally built to understand the time of day by the amount of light, the reasoning goes, but the clocks told a different time — throwing people's sleeping patterns out of sync with their working habits. Worse still, many of Spain's social traditions were set while the country was still agrarian, and many farmers worked according to a solar clock."...read more...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/12/14/fascism-helped-create-a-time-zone-oddity-in-spain-70-years-later-it-may-finally-be-undone/?utm_term=.f0c1a1be649b&wpisrc=nl_wv&wpmm=1


Andrea