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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the save-the-nap dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Is the typical Spanish daily schedule about to change forever? For decades, campaigners in the country have complained that the average Spaniard's habit of keeping extremely late hours and taking delightfully long lunch breaks was making everyday life harder for citizens. This week, change could finally be on the way, as 110 professional bodies in Catalonia have signed up to a plan to change the region's daily timetable by 2025, shortening the classic three-hour lunch break so that employees can finish work earlier in the evening.

Such a change would radically reshape ordinary people's lives—and controversially, it could drive a wedge between Catalonia and the rest of Spain, where the national government supports similar changes (and has adopted a shorter break for public offices) but hasn't yet fixed a timetable for action.

You could call the plan an end to national harmony, a blessed release for hard-pressed workers, or an attack on the Spanish way of life. Whatever you do, however, don't call it the end of the siesta.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by opinionated_science on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:27PM (8 children)

    by opinionated_science (4031) on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:27PM (#543457)

    Most of southern Europe where, prior to the modern age, it was too hot to work outside in the midday sun. Hence, long lunch breaks evolved as part of the culture. Italy, Greece, Portugal and France.

    This difference is most stark looking at the southern US, where air conditioning made longer practical working hours possible in many professions, but culturally the US is of largely northern European basis (UK, Holland, Germany etc..).

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by kaszz on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:35PM (7 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:35PM (#543460) Journal

    Let's hope they have reserved power capacity to run all those air condition units that will now need to run in the middle of the day.

    Oooppps didn't think of that!
    Heat island anyone?

    • (Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:39PM (6 children)

      by frojack (1554) on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:39PM (#543462) Journal

      Its sunny there, no?
      Problem solved.

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      • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:48PM (5 children)

        by kaszz (4211) on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:48PM (#543467) Journal

        Spain is sunny and during the mid day it may be extra hot so by having air conditioning used at those times will increase the power demand and worsen the heat island effect.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:51PM (4 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @08:51PM (#543470)

          Power the AC with solar cells.

          • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday July 23 2017, @09:18PM (3 children)

            by kaszz (4211) on Sunday July 23 2017, @09:18PM (#543482) Journal

            Not enough sun lit area to do that.

            • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday July 23 2017, @09:41PM (2 children)

              by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday July 23 2017, @09:41PM (#543488)

              Shade the work space with solar cells, then the A/C doesn't have to work so hard...

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              • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday July 23 2017, @11:09PM (1 child)

                by kaszz (4211) on Sunday July 23 2017, @11:09PM (#543514) Journal

                Not really working with high rise buildings in cities....?

                • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 24 2017, @02:28AM

                  by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday July 24 2017, @02:28AM (#543558)

                  You can shade the side of a building - it's not common, but works quite well when done.

                  The solar cells can be angled to catch the sun and still provide a view of the ground below.

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