[vikingerik]

The point is to correct those locales that have gone way too far in the direction of summer time. Spain in particular is almost 3 hours off of solar time.

There's a societal pull in the direction of earlier time, even aside from anything about sunlight. Nobody wants to be "late" compared to their economic neighbors so they gravitate towards earlier time zones. This is correcting for that.

[Dylan16807]

> Spain in particular is almost 3 hours off of solar time.

I suppose if you squint right at the western edge in summer time you could get there.

But the prime meridian runs straight through the country. I think a sensible reckoning would say that it's 1 hour off as a baseline and 1 extra hour during summer.

[reidrac]

Despite the prime meridian crossing the country, Spain is the same timezone as Berlin. One hour more than London.

If you are interested, look for the historical reasons for that.

Edit: OK, a good source.

> On March 16th 1940, the clocks jumped from 23:00h to 00:00h to display the same time as Nazi Germany and other Nazi-occupied countries such as France and the Netherlands. This was an entirely politically motivated move to show support to the fascist government of Germany and showed no consideration for the natural cycle of the sun in Spain. According to the original 24-hour division of the world, Spain’s latitudinal position meant that GMT was the most natural time-zone for it to follow.

From: https://theculturetrip.com/europe/spain/articles/heres-why-s...

Spanish civil war was won by the fascists and Franco's dictatorship followed.