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| Happy hour: Balearics try to keep summer time as Spain turns back the clocks | Happy hour: Balearics try to keep summer time as Spain turns back the clocks |
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| The Balearic Islands are raging against the dying of the light and endeavouring to boost the health, wealth and happiness of the archipelago by keeping on summer time as the rest of Spain prepares to turn back its clocks an hour this weekend. | The Balearic Islands are raging against the dying of the light and endeavouring to boost the health, wealth and happiness of the archipelago by keeping on summer time as the rest of Spain prepares to turn back its clocks an hour this weekend. |
| On Tuesday, the islands’ parliament will approve a measure asking the central government to let it hang on to the extra hour of daylight, arguing that as Spain’s most easterly region, it suffers most from the annual change. | On Tuesday, the islands’ parliament will approve a measure asking the central government to let it hang on to the extra hour of daylight, arguing that as Spain’s most easterly region, it suffers most from the annual change. |
| Given their location, the Balearics see the sunset almost an hour earlier than western parts of the peninsula. | Given their location, the Balearics see the sunset almost an hour earlier than western parts of the peninsula. |
| The motion, proposed by the Més per Mallorca coalition, claims that keeping the islands on the same time as mainland Spain is based on “obsolete industrial” concerns. It calls for a “rational, logical and natural” system, adding: “Modern society needs the hours of daylight to adapt to its leisure time.” | The motion, proposed by the Més per Mallorca coalition, claims that keeping the islands on the same time as mainland Spain is based on “obsolete industrial” concerns. It calls for a “rational, logical and natural” system, adding: “Modern society needs the hours of daylight to adapt to its leisure time.” |
| According to the Illes amb Claror (Bright Islands) campaign – which sports the slogan “more light, more colour, more life” – sticking to the summer schedule would deliver a wide range of benefits to the islands and their inhabitants. | According to the Illes amb Claror (Bright Islands) campaign – which sports the slogan “more light, more colour, more life” – sticking to the summer schedule would deliver a wide range of benefits to the islands and their inhabitants. |
| They say it would help those with insomnia and depression, cut the amount of television watched and get people outside to exercise for longer. On the economic front, adds the campaign, it would reduce electricity consumption, boost the takings of small and medium businesses by keeping people out in the streets longer, and help make the islands’ economies less rigidly seasonal. | They say it would help those with insomnia and depression, cut the amount of television watched and get people outside to exercise for longer. On the economic front, adds the campaign, it would reduce electricity consumption, boost the takings of small and medium businesses by keeping people out in the streets longer, and help make the islands’ economies less rigidly seasonal. |
| What’s more, claims Illes amb Claror, it would improve people’s quality of life by allowing families to spend more time together outside. | |
| Spain is used to grappling with the oddities of its timezone. Until 1942, when Franco put the country on Central European Time to show solidarity with Hitler, Spain was on Greenwich mean time. Three years ago, a parliamentary commission recommended that Spain turn its clocks back an hour and adopt the shorter working day favoured by its neighbours. | Spain is used to grappling with the oddities of its timezone. Until 1942, when Franco put the country on Central European Time to show solidarity with Hitler, Spain was on Greenwich mean time. Three years ago, a parliamentary commission recommended that Spain turn its clocks back an hour and adopt the shorter working day favoured by its neighbours. |