Time moves slowly in the Norwegian town of Vadsø, which is why their mayor suggested to make its days 26 hours long. Photo: Aurora Labs Norway The request made to the EU Commission gained world-wide attention but was never meant to be taken seriously, the mayor of...
Time seems to flow differently in the polar regions. Slower and more leisurely when contemplating the landscape and faster when looking at animals such as penguins, which sometimes surprise with big leaps. (Photo: Michael Wenger) The polar retrospective takes up...
Sometimes it seems that in Greenland time runs differently, slower, than in other parts of the world, but this is more due to our perception than to reality. But the fact that Greenland is three hours behind the coordinated universal time (UTC-3) is a reality that...
A new time is on its horizon For most of its history as a Danish colony, then county and now semi-independent country, when a clock has chimed noon most places in Greenland, it has stuck just eight times in metropolitan Denmark. The time difference gives people in...
