30:
582:, the railways in western and eastern Norway were planned to be connected in a few years (happened 1909), and now the proposition to adapt to Central European was widely accepted. Hence, one standard time was introduced on January 1, 1895, and has since then remained Greenwich + 1 (Central European time). On this date church clocks was either moved backward (east of 15°E), or forward (west of 15°E), except for
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In Norway, summer time was observed in 1916, 1943–45, and 1959–65. The arrangement 1959-65 was controversial, and was discontinued 1965. Their neighbour, Sweden, did not use it during this period. However, in 1980 summer time was reintroduced (together with Sweden and
Denmark), and since 1996 Norway
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Norway was comparably late to introduce an official standard time, mainly due to the lack of a railway network connecting the country in an east–west direction. Throughout Norway, the main means of transport were by cart onshore and ship at sea, both too slow and unpredictable to have an issue with
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It was not until 1885 the first suggestions came to introduce standard time in Norway, but this met great opposition by influencing groups and locally in the districts of Norway. The most complicated of four propositions was to divide Norway into 5 time zones 15 minutes apart. But none of them was
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is on 31°10′E longitude, meaning 64 minutes difference between mean solar time and official time. The difference between those points is 26°41′ or 1 hour 46 minutes. The 15° E meridian passes Norway in the northern part of the country, from north over
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lie almost on the 15°E meridian. The local time continued to live on for quite some time, especially in rural communities, where both the local and standard time were in use (the latter being referred to as
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used
Drammen local time, a difference of 4 minutes. The unconnected (during 19th century with large gaps to the Oslo network) railways from
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There is a
Norwegian law saying that the time zone of Norwegian territory is UTC+1, except for a part of year (daylight saving time)
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331:, a total distance of about 320 km. The vast majority of the population in Norway lives to the west of the 15°E longitude.
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652:"LOV 2007-01-26 nr 04: Lov om målenheter, måling og normaltid.(Law about measurement, units and standard time)"
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is on 4°30′E longitude, meaning 42 minutes difference between mean solar time and official time, while the
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was used for this purpose, until 1866 when it was replaced by Oslo local time. The railways from the
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accepted. In 1893 the time issue emerged again, and since the last time, the neighbouring countries
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contains one zone for the area with ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code NO (Norway) in the file
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used these cities local time, both 22 minutes after Oslo time.
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has followed the
European Union regarding transition dates.
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in Oslo used Oslo local time, while the railways from the
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parishes that continued with their local time as their
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253: Pale colours: Standard time observed all year
517:Norway follows the European Union in this matter.
631:Local time and World Standard time (in Norwegian)
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526:the local time. With the introduction of the
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654:. Norwegian Government, NHD. 2008-01-01.
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299:observe the same time as the mainland.
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281:(CET). Norway observes Summer Time (
574:had adopted standard time, so also
308:easternmost point in Norway proper
304:westernmost point in Norway proper
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378:. Both are links to Europe/Oslo.
341:Date and time notation in Norway
381:Data for Norway directly from
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578:(Central European time). In
552:Western terminus (Vestbanen)
171:Eastern European Summer Time
123:Central European Summer Time
84:Western European Summer Time
548:Eastern terminus (Østbanen)
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277:the standard time is the
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387:IANA time zone database
366:is covered by the zone
352:IANA time zone database
346:IANA time zone database
740:Bosnia and Herzegovina
270:
358:, where it is named "
279:Central European Time
159:Eastern European Time
138:Eastern European Time
111:Central European Time
66:Western European Time
45:Western European Time
32:
538:, the local time of
528:electrical telegraph
513:Daylight saving time
287:daylight saving time
264: Dark colours:
1059:Geography of Norway
956:States with limited
451:Arctic/Longyearbyen
368:Arctic/Longyearbyen
95:Irish Standard Time
89:British Summer Time
71:Greenwich Mean Time
50:Greenwich Mean Time
473:Atlantic/Jan_Mayen
376:Atlantic/Jan Mayen
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532:Kristiania (Oslo)
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16:(Redirected from
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994:Dependencies and
698:Sovereign states
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613:Time in Svalbard
530:in 1855 between
496:Antarctica/Troll
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18:Antarctica/Troll
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323:and finally
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222:Georgia Time
210:Armenia Time
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1023:Isle of Man
958:recognition
932:Switzerland
867:Netherlands
447:+7800+01600
428:Europe/Oslo
424:+5955+01045
360:Europe/Oslo
329:Saltfjellet
321:Vestfjorden
266:Summer time
228:Samara Time
193:Turkey Time
187:Moscow Time
1048:Categories
902:San Marino
862:Montenegro
842:Luxembourg
822:Kazakhstan
725:Azerbaijan
619:References
540:Copenhagen
408:UTC offset
404:Comments*
313:Vesterålen
41:Light Blue
1013:Gibraltar
837:Lithuania
560:Stavanger
372:Jan Mayen
297:Jan Mayen
283:sommertid
205:Turquoise
1033:Svalbard
1018:Guernsey
965:Abkhazia
917:Slovenia
912:Slovakia
887:Portugal
745:Bulgaria
607:See also
592:churches
383:zone.tab
370:, while
364:Svalbard
356:zone.tab
335:Notation
293:Svalbard
268:observed
942:Ukraine
892:Romania
852:Moldova
810:Ireland
805:Iceland
800:Hungary
790:Germany
785:Georgia
775:Finland
770:Estonia
765:Denmark
750:Croatia
735:Belgium
730:Belarus
720:Austria
715:Armenia
710:Andorra
705:Albania
588:Steigen
576:Germany
572:Denmark
544:Denmark
536:Drammen
521:History
506:+02:00
503:+00:00
482:+02:00
479:+01:00
460:+02:00
457:+01:00
437:+02:00
434:+01:00
385:of the
317:Lofoten
1028:Jersey
970:Kosovo
937:Turkey
927:Sweden
907:Serbia
897:Russia
882:Poland
877:Norway
857:Monaco
827:Latvia
795:Greece
780:France
755:Cyprus
584:Hadsel
580:Norway
568:Sweden
556:Bergen
500:Troll
395:c.c.*
325:Salten
275:Norway
134:Yellow
1003:Åland
922:Spain
847:Malta
817:Italy
233:UTC+4
198:UTC+3
182:Green
175:UTC+3
163:UTC+2
155:Ochre
148:UTC+2
127:UTC+2
115:UTC+1
100:UTC+1
586:and
570:and
558:and
534:and
401:TZ*
350:The
327:and
315:and
302:The
295:and
62:Blue
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76:UTC
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