I took some mates on a bike trip to Morocco in 2005 in the days before the country started changing clocks for summertime.
The sunrise/set hours in the UK at that time of year were about 0445 to 2130, but Spain is (a) further south, so about two hours less midsummer daylight, (b) is further west, so sunrise and set are later, and (c) is on Berlin time (thanks to Franco) so an hour ahead of the UK.
Thus the sunrise/set hours in Spain were about 0700 to 2145. When we crossed over to Morocco we went back to GMT and the hours were 0500 to 1945.
I wanted to get the guys on the road as early as possible so persuaded them to keep their watches on Spanish time for the morning start, so we could set off around 0800 (0600 in Morocco). But when working out when to stop for the evening we were looking at the Moroccan time.
It was then my mates realised I had invented the 26 hour day.
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and enlarges the world in which you live," Irving Mather (1892-1966)
Last edited by Tim Cullis; 22 Nov 2018 at 13:08.
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