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France, Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands are in the wrong time zone because of Nazis https://lemmy.ca/post/2220899
That doesn't exactly explain why they're still in those time zones 80 years later, despite only having been under Nazi control for less than 6 years.
Not only that, most of Spain (except the Canaries), the most extreme case, Is on a time zone that has a border with Russia, while actually being on the Greenwich meridian.