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That schedule is 2 hours later than ours.
And Spain is even more, like 3 hours later than ours.
And it's even later on weekends. On Sundays nothing is open before 12:00...
And thus you get from work at 17:00, and are maybe home at 17:30-17:45, so a 19:00 sunset would be way too early. Post 19:00 sunsets last from 26 March to 2 October.
And it's even later on weekends. On Sundays nothing is open before 12:00...
And thus you get from work at 17:00, and are maybe home at 17:30-17:45, so a 19:00 sunset would be way too early. Post 19:00 sunsets last from 26 March to 2 October.
19:00 sunset in Finland = 20:00 sunset in Spain = 17:00 sunset in Indonesia (well the possible earliest in Indonesia is a bit after 17:00) , in term of schedule.
Whats the boundary between "late night" and "early morning" in your culture/schedule?
Over here is around 1-2am. Pretty much the middle of average sleeping hours of people here.
19:00 sunset in Finland = 20:00 sunset in Spain = 17:00 sunset in Indonesia (well the possible earliest in Indonesia is a bit after 17:00) , in term of schedule.
No, because Spain is CET and Finland is EET.
When DST starts on 29 March, the sunset is 20:07 here and 20:36 in Madrid.
Maybe the timezone setting also plays the role in shaping the culture.
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Originally Posted by overdrive1979
Sunrise and sunset commonly take place too late in Spain, so that's why we have late eating customs, just because of our later solar noon over others European countries.
Maybe the timezone setting also plays the role in shaping the culture.
Nope, because nationwide time zones are a rather new invention. Before railroads all cities had their own timezones with the solar noon as close to 12:00 as possible. Only fast travel made these individual timezones impossible.
Because of the big difference in daylight, in agricultural times Finland had a "summer schedule" and "winter schedule".
There's about 28 minutes more daylight now than there was on the solstice. It's really not noticeable yet, it's dark all the time. I wouldn't mind if we weren't in the middle of another thaw that makes the outside world look like crap.
I agree with this. If I live in higher latitude I want morning to be bright enough. I don't mind early sunsets. Infact I enjoy the "early season" here in November - both sunrise/set times are in the earliest - because of the equation of time.
I think in most midlatitude areas (at least North America and Europe) people prefer to have light when they come home in the evening. Morning is seen as less important, but people don't want to get to work in the dark if possible. Since the length of the day varies so much, typical work times are set so that people don't go to work in the dark (typical earliest sunrise in the US is 7-7:30 am, so work start time isn't going to be at or before that). Schedules don't move with the sun, but it makes sense to more daylight in the evenings than early mornings, which is rather wasted for more people.
I think in Spain traditionaly taking a break in the middle of the day was really important because it gets quite hot in the early afternoon for a good part of the year, so most activities were usually slowed down for 2 or 3 hours, allowing for people to take a nap, and then reopening stores around 4 and then making the work days end later. I believe it's the same in southern Italy for the same reasons, and Southern Italy was spanish for a while anyway.
In France it's normal to have at least a one hour break in most offices, sometimes as much as two hours. When I was in junior high school, the classes stopped at 12 and restarted at 2. So really, we were in class from 8 to 5 maximum, and in high school it ended at 6.
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