Bein seuda l’seuda is obviously governed by local convention and not halakha. Halakha does not tell you when to eat your meals. Rama says that in Poland, they only waited one hour and the whole inyan is to not eat meat and dairy in the same meal. He maintains that, according to the letter of the law, one may eat a meat meal, recite Birkat Hamazon and then immediately begin a dairy meal. While the minhag developed to wait some period of time, this is just a minhag . In addition, it is noteworthy that the Rambam says one should wait about 5.5 hours, not 6 hours, which leads some to say that 5 and a half hours suffices. There is obviously much diversity on this matter, which results from the fact that there are little, if any, actual halakhic requirements.
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