About Spanish time region change

Recently have started in Spain a debate about change the time zone to recover the one used when the republic. I think, it's curious that I didn't heard since now about this change. I know that Greenwich meridian cuts the territory and even that we are not in the same zone than England (UK). But it was forgotten to mention to me by anyone that before it was.

According to what I have heard this days, was during the second world war, when the nazi German invade France, they have changed the time zone of France (who where also at Greenwich) to set the same than the invader and the Spanish dictator waved his ally changing the Spanish also.

So far so good? Up to this point there is nothing else in the matter of set back the time zone or not. Every year we change from winter time to summer time and vice-versa, with caring about time zone business.

But the justification I have heard to support this change I think is point less. You can read in the press, that this will help to improve productivity, or that the siesta have the will be gone, or that this will improve working habits...

This is not the solution on the working habits at all! How can think that if some one that is working from 8am to 7pm, will change its work time schedule if politicians change the time zone? The only effect on the change of the time zone, will be that the sun will shift the rise and the set, but will not point the real problem of the Spanish productivity. The exampled journey will be tagged between 7am to 6pm, that is useless for working habits!

There is a brain fire recorded thing in Spain: it is not much important how much you work, the important thing is how much hours are you at work (how much seems that you work). And this is the issue about the working habits and the productivity. Many bosses likes to see you heating the chair and they don't like to see you being the first that leave the office in the evening (even if you have been the first to arrive).

Until this issue is not fix, the working habits will still be bad... In this country, what the boss expect from you, is to see you doing unpaid extra-hours even if you don't have anything to do. And never thing in register those hours, I've work with a time clock machine than automatically signs you off after the 8 hours even if you are still in the office. If you do that, the boss will be happy with you, if you work hard but you don't stay more (except when something really unexpected happen) you will be classified as "not very committed to the project".

Once I had a boss that told me: "we don't want workers that only does eight hours". Put the time zone you want, if the origin of this sentence is not fixed, the balancing between work and family time will be lopsided hopeless...

In other European countries, there are companies points you an assistant when you trigger overtime alarms, to help you to organize your time or detect if you are overloaded.

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After to follow the coursera's "High Performance Scientific Computing" I've learn about the Amazon Web Services and how to use them. Specially in the hook for new customers with 12 month free tier. I have mention it about a month a go.

I have there some sage sheets that in other alternatives didn't finish the calculation (there is a sheet timeout when there is no activity). With my own installation, I can be aware of when this instance is being crazy and forget this timeout to continue the calculations.

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I have started using it, not much yet, but I like specially to mention one of the talks than William Stein did:

I recommend this talk very much.