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Damn, Spain and Morocco being UTC+1 is nuts. Even France and Algeria are stretching it a bit far for my liking. And it gets even more crazy for the European countries for over half the year when they play pretendy-magic-time and go to UTC+2.
Portugal was understandably like "nah fuck you guys". Still like a bit lonely on a map though.
Otherwise the people on the Azores would go nuts.
Azores is UTC-1 anyway.
Yes, the difference to the mother country would be even larger.
Sooo?
Different time zones are said to make business more complicated. I think that's why the CET/CEST time zone is stretched out that much.
France amd Spain being +1 is apparently a relic from the 40s when Germany occupied France and the Spanish government felt they needed to switch to appease Germany. It is kinda funny neither switched back.
Germany changed it in occupied territories to simplify administration.
For some reason it never changed back despite being out of natural sync.
The same holds for the BeNeLux countries.