Dear MEL
Topic Readers,
Spain is
trying to kill the siesta
Jamon is one thing that makes Spain distinctive, as
covered in yesterday’s Topic Reading Vol.1714. There are another traditions
that Spaniards love, Siesta and late
dinner.
If you
visit Spain, you’ll find people get up in the dark, enjoy long lunch, followed
by siesta for some and have late dinner at night. One reason for this rather
unusual practice is the time zone. Most part of Spain belongs to Central
European Time, or CET, that is an hour ahead of the Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT,
though the country lies in almost the same longitudes as the U.K. In fact, they
used to use GMT before the Second World War but the time zone was changed to CET
during the war and has remained so since then.
(The current time zone in
Europe, click or touch this.)
In order
to finish working, have dinner and go to bed earlier for healthier life, the Spanish
government is considering moving its clocks back an hour to GMT.
Enjoy
reading and thinking which time zone you’d prefer if you lived in Spain.
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