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by i_am_proteus 1691 days ago
Madrid's solar noon is around 1 PM during standard time and 2 PM during summer time, the rest of Spain is a bit off from this, and I noted when I lived there that the Spanish custom seems to be to keep later hours.
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Spain should be on GMT. It was a political decision by Franco to align timezones with Germany during WWII.
Interestingly the UK also changed to GMT+1 during the war.

And during the Spanish Civil war Republicans had already moved to GMT+1 in 1938, a change that was undone after the war before switching again to GMT+1 in 1940.