For more than eight decades, Spain has been suffering from jet lag in relation to its geographical position. Although by longitude it should be governed by the Greenwich Meridian, the country maintains Central European Time (CET), the same as that used by countries located much further east.
This singularity has been fed for years by a persistent story: the myth that this mismatch was a nod from Franco's regime to Nazi Germany. However, the reality - as is often the case - much more complex and less ideological than one might think.
