The days will get longer. Time change is a pretext for telling a story about why Spain has no spindle as us
The clock pointers will be advanced 60 minutes at dawn on March 30 in Portugal. It is the arrival of the so -called “summer time”, according to the indication of the Lisbon Astronomical Observatory.
In mainland Portugal and the autonomous region of Madeira, the clocks should be advanced an hour when it is 01:00 Sunday, being 02:00.
In the Autonomous Region of the Azores, the change is made at 00:00, changing to 01:00.
Legal time then moves again on October 26, to the winter regime. At that time, at 02:00 you should delay the clock an hour.
The current time change regime is regulated by a 2000 directive (community law) that foresees that every year clocks are respectively advanced and late on the last Sunday of March and last Sunday, marking the beginning and end of summer time.
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José María Fernández -Crehuet, a professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid -and specializing in equilibrium issues between professional and personal life and a researcher on the use of time -, from El Mundo newspaper, the impact of time change.
The time change dates back to Saturday 16 March 1940, when Franco’s Spain changed the time zone for GMT+1 (Central Europe time) – in what was considered a “Franco sympathy with Hitler’s Germany.” However, 84 years later, the question remains: Why is a country next to Portugal, for example, the same time as Poland – which is more than three thousand kilometers away?
“Each country decides its official time, which may or may not coincide with solar time. In Spain we are an hour ahead all year – and we are a country where the sun only shines 9 hours in winter and 16 hours in summer. Although we get a more daytime light in summer, so it causes the time to have so many energy savings as they announce,” the expert.
Although the greatest benefit of the change of time is “having more hours of light”, Fernández-Crehuet says this may not have as much impact on people’s lives as they announce, since “and dawns later, our biological clock awakens later”, and people tend to get out of work only when the sun goes.
In addition, “this time distances more Spain from Portugal”, where, remembers, the hours of lunch and dinner differ greatly from those practiced in Spanish territory.
“It would be best to have the time of London and Lisbon and make the time change like them. In favor of changing the hour, yes. If we had the time of Portugal or England we would have all the benefits of enjoying the sun as much as possible. We adjusted our life to sunlight, so we have lunch and dinner later,” he explains that “it is good to change the time to take time.”
