What about the higher productivity of Scandinavians? They shift back and forth on "time-zones" due to the constant change of amount of light because of the very hash winter. Sometimes with as few as 3 hours of light, not sun, but still maintain the same level of productivity.
Currently, Spanish primetime stretches until after midnight <- Well what about making less time for primetime? Or less siestas?
What about the higher productivity of Scandinavians? They shift back and forth on "time-zones"
What? We have summer time (DST) and regular time - just like most other European countries. If you're talking about Scandinavia's location relative to its time zone, most of Scandinavia is within its "natural" time zone [1].
And your "very hard winter" and "as few as 3 hours of light" comments mostly apply to the very Northern (and sparsely populated) parts of Norway and Sweden. The Danish climate is more like the UK's.
The distance from the northernmost part of Scandinavia to the southernmost part is like the distance from Minnesota to Texas, so obviously the climate varies a lot.
I live 60 degrees north (which is not north enough to be Northern Norway) and the winters do get quite dark. It also gets compounded if you live in a valley, which many/most in my part of the country do. And living near the coast, the climate is so mild that the winter sees little in the way of snow, which makes it even more dark since there is no snow to reflect the sunlight.
Did I try to contradict that? My comment was a response to the claim that winters aren't really that dark except for the northern parts of Norway and Sweden, which is not my experience.
The productivity problem is not about the timezone is about the here all the people work normally 9-13 break until 15 and 15-19 more or less so we spend all the day in office because not all the peole can take the lunch in home.
Pd: yes, we take siesta because we have longs timebreaks.
The so called (in English) "siesta", which in Spanish would be just "the lunch break", is a compulsory long break in many professions. Many would rather close shop at 5 or 6 than at 9pm, but everyone has to do it at once or it won't work.
The solution most would expect to succeed is a legal one: I know of a dev shop that could easily switch to a 9-5 schedule, as many banks and civil servants have already, but it has to keep a split timetable just because management wants it so.
I'm not accusing anyone of being an alcoholic, I just know what I would be doing if I had a mandatory 2-hour lunch every day! And it's not eating (probably not as much as I do now)
EDIT: On the chance that my ambiguous grammar has got you tied... in the right order, I would be a bit slow for an hour or two in the afternoon, after having three or six cervezas.
To back up this argument china should be in five different time zones because the country is so wast, but it is in one time zone and does not seem to suffer from productivity problems.
some of it is due to the really harsh climate. But I guess most of it might be lifestyle.. but then again, wouldn't that be due to climate in the first place?
What about the higher productivity of Scandinavians? They shift back and forth on "time-zones" due to the constant change of amount of light because of the very hash winter. Sometimes with as few as 3 hours of light, not sun, but still maintain the same level of productivity.
Currently, Spanish primetime stretches until after midnight <- Well what about making less time for primetime? Or less siestas?