Time in the Danish Realm


Denmark, including the dependencies Faroe Islands and Greenland, uses six different time zones.

Time zones

[Central European Time]

' as standard time, and ' as daylight saving time, with transition dates according to the European Union rules.
' as standard time, and ' as daylight saving time.
year around, no daylight saving time
' as standard time, and ' as daylight saving time.
' as standard time, and ' as daylight saving time.
' as standard time, and ' as daylight saving time, with transition dates according to the United States rules.
All of Greenland uses daylight saving time, except for the northeast coast. The transition dates are according to the European Union rules, except for the Thule Air Base which uses United States transition dates and where the below description is not valid.
Daylight saving time starts at 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday in March and ends same time on the last Sunday in October each year, simultaneously in all affected areas.
This means that in Denmark proper, the transition is at 02:00 local standard time, and in the Faroe Islands one hour earlier. In most of Greenland the transition takes place at 22:00 local standard time on the day before, four hours before Copenhagen.

History

The first time a common time was used in Denmark, was in 1890, when Copenhagen local time was used as railway time. This was GMT+0:50:20 from Greenwich. In 1890 this time was introduced as a standard time for Denmark. In 1894, Denmark connected to the international time zones, using Greenwich plus one hour. This is the local time of eastern Bornholm, leaving 99.5% of the country west of the time meridian, which has triggered some sarcastic comments. However all of the country is located east of Greenwich .
Daylight saving time was used in the years 1916, 1940, 1945-1948 and is used from 1980.
The Faroe Islands introduced Greenwich Mean Time in 1908, and Iceland introduced GMT-01:00 at the same time. West Greenland introduced GMT-03:00 in 1916. Daylight saving time was introduced in the Faroe Islands in 1981.

IANA time zone database

Data for Denmark directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database. Columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself.
c.c.*Coordinates*TZ*Comments*UTC offsetUTC DST offset
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