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Denmark, including its dependencies of Faroe Islands and Greenland, uses six time zones.
Area | Standard time | Daylight time | tz database | |||||
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Denmark | UTC+01:00 | UTC+02:00 | EU transition dates | Europe/Copenhagen | ||||
Faroe Islands | UTC±00:00 | UTC+01:00 | EU transition dates | Atlantic/Faroe | ||||
Danmarkshavn | UTC±00:00 | (no DST) | America/Danmarkshavn | |||||
Ittoqqortoormiit | UTC-02:00 | UTC-01:00 | EU transition dates | America/Scoresbysund | ||||
Western Greenland | America/Godthab | |||||||
Pituffik Space Base | UTC-04:00 | UTC-03:00 | U.S. transition dates | America/Thule | ||||
The current time in Denmark is: 10:41, 30 August 2024 CEST [refresh] | ||||||||
The current time in Greenland is: 06:41, 30 August 2024 WGST [refresh] | ||||||||
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Light Blue | Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time (UTC) |
Blue | Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time (UTC) |
Western European Summer Time / British Summer Time / Irish Standard Time (UTC+1) | |
Red | Central European Time (UTC+1) |
Central European Summer Time (UTC+2) | |
Yellow | Eastern European Time / Kaliningrad Time (UTC+2) |
Ochre | Eastern European Time (UTC+2) |
Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3) | |
Green | Moscow Time / Turkey Time (UTC+3) |
Turquoise | Armenia Time / Azerbaijan Time / Georgia Time / Samara Time (UTC+4) |
UTC+01:00 as standard time, and UTC+02:00 as daylight saving time, with transition dates according to the European Union rules.
UTC±00:00 as standard time, and UTC+01:00 as daylight saving time.
UTC±00:00 year around, no daylight saving time
UTC-02:00 as standard time, and UTC-01:00 as daylight saving time.
UTC-04:00 as standard time, and UTC-03:00 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 Pituffik Space Base, which uses United States transition dates and for which the following description does not apply.
DST starts at 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday in March and ends same time on the last Sunday in October each year in all affected areas.
That means that in Denmark proper, the transition is at 02:00 Local Standard Time (03:00 Daylight Saving Time) and in the Faroe Islands one hour earlier. In most of Greenland, the transition takes place at 23:00 Local Standard Time on the day before (00:00 Daylight Saving Time).
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 1893, Denmark adopted the "Act on the Determination of Time", to connect to the international time zones, using Greenwich plus one hour, which set the standard time in Denmark as 12:00 when the sun is directly above 15°E, starting from 1 January 1894.[9] This is the local time of eastern Bornholm, leaving 99.5% of the country west of the time meridian (15°E), which has triggered some sarcastic comments (changing from Copenhagen time to Gudhjem time). However all of the country is located east of Greenwich +00:30 (7.5°E).
Daylight saving time was used in the years 1916, 1940, 1945-1948 and is used from 1980.[1]
The Faroe Islands introduced Greenwich Mean Time in 1908, and Iceland (then a Danish area) introduced GMT-01:00 at the same time (changed to GMT, permanent daylight saving time, in 1968). West Greenland introduced GMT-03:00 in 1916. Daylight saving time was introduced in the Faroe Islands in 1981.[1]
On 25 January 2023, Transport Minister, Thomas Danielsen made a proposal to overrule the 1893 law, with an act to set Danish standard time as UTC+1, with exceptions for Greenland and the Faroe Islands.[10][11] On 14 March 2023, the Folketing adopted the proposal with unanimous consent, and the proposal came in effect as law on 26 March 2023, at 2:00.[12][13] Greenland moved the time zone forward one hour simultaneously (on 25 March 2023 local time), after that using UTC-02:00 as the standard time.[14]
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 offset | UTC DST offset |
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DK | +5540+01235 | Europe/Copenhagen | +01:00 | +02:00 | |
FO | +6201−00646 | Atlantic/Faroe | +00:00 | +01:00 | |
GL | +7646−01840 | America/Danmarkshavn | National Park (east coast) | +00:00 | +00:00 |
GL | +7029−02158 | America/Scoresbysund | Scoresbysund/Ittoqqortoormiit | −02:00 | −01:00 |
GL | America/Godthab | −02:00 | −01:00 | ||
GL | +7634−06847 | America/Thule | Thule/Pituffik | −04:00 | −03:00 |
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