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西班牙冷知识:时区是错的

沪江英语 2019-11-13 16:54
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虽然西班牙人睡得多,但他们晚上却缺觉,睡得几乎是全球最晚,仅次于日本。

而且和日本不同,不是社畜加班,西班牙人是单纯吃吃喝喝嗨到深更半夜。如果要盘点全球夜生活最野的国家,西班牙绝对有姓名。

而这其中有一个原因是:这个国家的时区是错的,西班牙在大陆最西边,和英国基本在一个经度,但他们用的是中欧时间。

According to a Washington Post article, the Spanish sleep an hour less per night than the World Health Organization recommends, while another source claims the Spanish go to sleep later than any country in the world, after Japan. One reason is that Spain is in the wrong timezone. Spain shares the Iberian peninsula with Portugal, and, geographically speaking, is almost perfectly aligned with Britain, both of which operate on GMT, while Spain is on Central European Time, which extends as far east as Poland's border with Belarus and Ukraine. Most of Europe went to Central European Time during World War II, to avoid confusion about when exactly attacks were going to take place. After the war, most countries reverted to their old timezone, but Spain did not. No one knows why.
根据《华盛顿邮报》的文章,西班牙人每晚的睡眠时间比世卫组织推荐的量要少一小时;另有地方说西班牙人几乎比全球的人都晚睡,只比日本早。其中一个原因是,西班牙的时区是错的。西班牙和葡萄牙都处于伊比利亚半岛,从地理上讲基本就和英国处于相同经度,葡萄牙和英国都用格林威治标准时间,但西班牙却是用中欧时间,这个时区都到波兰东边跟白俄罗斯和乌克兰交界的地方了。这是因为,二战时候欧洲大部分地方都改用了中欧时间,以免搞错攻击的确切时间。战后,大部分国家都换回了老的时区,但西班牙没有,没有人知道为什么。

 

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