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points by mdlxxv 22 hours ago | 0 comments
Spaniard here. I'm one of those few weirdos that desperately need daylight in the mornings to properly function, especially in autumn and winter, and couldn't care less if it gets dark earlier in the evening. I might even welcome it, especially in summer. We are rare, but we exist!

Spain is already in the wrong time zone for standard time, and when DST hits, it's two hours off the time we really should have. It's unnatural for daylight to last until 22:00 or nearby in june and july in Spain's latitude. A bit more and we'd end up with some kind of midnight sun, like we were in the Arctic Circle. It's ridiculous.

I mean, it's usually so hot, and getting hotter every year, that you can only go outside somewhat comfortably after nightfall anyway, so I'd actually prefer if it got dark at 20:00 or earlier in the summer, as it should be. On the other hand, it's horribly demoralizing for me when it's almost 8:30 in the morning in mid-october and it's still so dark. Going back to standard time, like we did a few days ago, gives me a brief respite, but unfortunately dark mornings will soon return in a month or so.

[–] mrweasel 21 hours ago
> Spain is already in the wrong time zone for standard time

That's probably even more of an issue for Spain, made even stranger by the fact that Portugal is in the "correct" timezone.

[–] atherton94027 21 hours ago
This is a consequence of WW2, Spain and France moved to CET to align themselves with nazi germany. Portugal and the UK didn't.
[–] mrweasel 19 hours ago
I knew about Spain doing it to align with Germany, but I had no idea that France used to be UTC.
[–] atherton94027 5 hours ago
Not to be pedant but that's GMT – UTC doesn't have daylight savings
[–] pjmlp 19 hours ago
Yeah, it is even more weird when going from Portugal to Galicia, as the longitude kind of doesn't change.

Even if it was a political decision, as answered on sibling comment, moving east at least makes some sense for the common person.