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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @07:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @07:17PM (#543847)

    Just to reinforce the point, I am the original poster and, as the parent mentioned, dinner at 11 PM can happen but is very uncommon. Dinner that stretches until after 11 PM is more frequent when you are with friends, especially on Fridays and Saturdays if you are eating out. However, most people have dinner between 8 and 10 PM, and, again, bear in mind that due to us keeping the same time as Central Europe while being the westernmost part of the continent (together with Portugal and not counting islands), this is more akin to 7 to 9 in other cultures.