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Time in Finland, the Glossary

Finland uses Eastern European Time (EET) during the winter as standard time and Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) during the summer as daylight saving time.^[1]

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Geography of Finland

Aamulehti

Aamulehti (Finnish for "morning newspaper") is a Finnish-language daily newspaper published in Tampere, Finland.

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Ajan Suunta

Ajan Suunta (Direction of Time) was the newspaper of the Finnish Patriotic People's Movement (IKL) that ran from 1932 to 1944.

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Alexander III of Russia

Alexander III (r; 10 March 18451 November 1894) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894.

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American Railway Association

The American Railway Association (ARA) was an industry trade group representing railroads in the United States.

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The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.

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Atomic clock

An atomic clock is a clock that measures time by monitoring the resonant frequency of atoms.

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Åland

Åland (Ahvenanmaa) is an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland.

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Bandwidth (computing)

In computing, bandwidth is the maximum rate of data transfer across a given path.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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BIOS

In computing, BIOS (Basic Input/Output System, also known as the System BIOS, ROM BIOS, BIOS ROM or PC BIOS) is firmware used to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs and to perform hardware initialization during the booting process (power-on startup).

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Central European Time

Central European Time (CET) is a standard time of Central, and parts of Western Europe, which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Centre for Metrology and Accreditation

From the beginning of 2015, the Centre for Metrology (MIKES) (Finnish: Mittatekniikan keskus; Swedish: Mätteknikcentralen) formerly the Centre for Metrology and Accreditation has been part of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.

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Circadian rhythm

A circadian rhythm, or circadian cycle, is a natural oscillation that repeats roughly every 24 hours.

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Clock synchronization

Clock synchronization is a topic in computer science and engineering that aims to coordinate otherwise independent clocks.

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Colon (punctuation)

The colon,, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically.

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Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.

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Council of the European Union

The Council of the European Union, often referred to in the treaties and other official documents simply as the Council, and informally known as the Council of Ministers, is the third of the seven Institutions of the European Union (EU) as listed in the Treaty on European Union.

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Country code

A country code is a short alphanumeric identification code for countries and dependent areas.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Data-rate units

In telecommunications, data transfer rate is the average number of bits (bitrate), characters or symbols (baudrate), or data blocks per unit time passing through a communication link in a data-transmission system.

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Date and time notation in Finland

In Finland, the usual way of writing dates in normal text is with the months spelled out.

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Daylight

Daylight is the combination of all direct and indirect sunlight during the daytime.

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Daylight saving time

Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving(s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time.

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Demokraatti

Demokraatti is a Finnish language magazine and Social Democratic Party organ published 23 times a year in Helsinki, Finland.

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Diet of Finland

The Diet of Finland (Finnish Suomen maapäivät, later valtiopäivät; Swedish Finlands Lantdagar), was the legislative assembly of the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1809 to 1906 and the recipient of the powers of the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.

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Directive (European Union)

A directive is a legal act of the European Union that requires member states to achieve particular goals without dictating how the member states achieve those goals.

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Earth's magnetic field

Earth's magnetic field, also known as the geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from Earth's interior out into space, where it interacts with the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun.

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Earth's rotation

Earth's rotation or Earth's spin is the rotation of planet Earth around its own axis, as well as changes in the orientation of the rotation axis in space.

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Eastern European Summer Time

Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of the UTC+03:00 time zone, which is 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.

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Eastern European Time

Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.

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Edward Arnold (publisher)

Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd was a British publishing house with its head office in London.

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Estonia

Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

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EUR-Lex

EUR-Lex is the official online database of European Union law and other public documents of the European Union (EU), published in 24 official languages of the EU.

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European Commission

The European Commission (EC) is the primary executive arm of the European Union (EU).

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The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union, as renamed by the Lisbon Treaty.

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European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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European Union law

European Union law is a system of rules operating within the member states of the European Union (EU).

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Finlex

Finlex is a website that publishes information on judicial affairs of Finland.

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Finnish Government

The Finnish Government is the executive branch and cabinet of Finland, which directs the politics of Finland and is the main source of legislation proposed to the Parliament.

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Finnish Meteorological Institute

The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI; Ilmatieteen laitos; Meteorologiska institutet) is the government agency responsible for gathering and reporting weather data and forecasts in Finland.

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Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters

The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters (Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten r.f., Suomen Tiedeseura r.y., Societas Scientiarum Fennica) is a Finnish learned society for natural sciences, social sciences and humanities.

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Full stop

The full stop (Commonwealth English), period (North American English), or full point is a punctuation mark used for several purposes, most often to mark the end of a declarative sentence (as distinguished from a question or exclamation).

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Fundamental Astronomy

Fundamental Astronomy (1984–2017) is an astronomy textbook by Finnish author Hannu Karttunen of University of Turku; Pekka Kröger and Heikki Oja of University of Helsinki; Markku Poutanen of Finnish Geodetic Institute; and Karl Johan Donner of University of Helsinki.

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Global Positioning System

The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Grand Duchy of Finland

The Grand Duchy of Finland, officially and also translated as the Grand Principality of Finland, was the predecessor state of modern Finland.

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Greenwich Mean Time

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the local mean time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight.

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Hämeenlinna railway station

Hämeenlinna railway station (Hämeenlinnan rautatieasema, Tavastehus järnvägsstation) is located in the town of Hämeenlinna, Finland.

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Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.

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Helsinki Central Station

Helsinki Central Station (Helsingin päärautatieasema, Helsingfors centralstation) (HEC) is the main station for commuter rail and long-distance trains departing from Helsinki, Finland.

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Helsinki Times

Helsinki Times is the first English-language daily online newspaper in Finland providing domestic and international news for the country's English-speaking readers.

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Helsinki University Observatory

Helsinki University Observatory housed the Department of Astronomy at the University of Helsinki, south Finland until end of 2009.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.

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ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a global multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces and numerical spaces of the Internet, ensuring the Internet's stable and secure operation.

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Institute for the Languages of Finland

The Institute for the Languages of Finland, better known as Kotus, is a governmental linguistic research institute of Finland geared to studies of Finnish, Swedish (cf. Finland Swedish), the Sami languages, Romani language, as well as Finnish Sign Language and Finland-Swedish Sign Language.

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International Astronomical Union

The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) with the objective of advancing astronomy in all aspects, including promoting astronomical research, outreach, education, and development through global cooperation.

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International Atomic Time

International Atomic Time (abbreviated TAI, from its French name temps atomique international) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth's geoid.

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International Bureau of Weights and Measures

The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (Bureau international des poids et mesures, BIPM) is an intergovernmental organisation, through which its 59 member-states act on measurement standards in areas including chemistry, ionising radiation, physical metrology, as well as the International System of Units (SI) and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service

The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS), formerly the International Earth Rotation Service, is the body responsible for maintaining global time and reference frame standards, notably through its Earth Orientation Parameter (EOP) and International Celestial Reference System (ICRS) groups.

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International Meridian Conference

The International Meridian Conference was a conference held in October 1884 in Washington, D.C., in the United States, to determine a prime meridian for international use.

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International Telecommunication Union

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)French: Union Internationale des Télécommunications is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a standards organization that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet Protocol–related symbols and Internet numbers.

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ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest.

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ISO 3166-2:AX

ISO 3166-2:AX is the entry for the Åland Islands in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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ISO 3166-2:FI

ISO 3166-2:FI is the entry for Finland in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g. provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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Karesuvanto

Karesuvanto or Kaaresuvanto (Gárasavvon, Karesuando) is a village in Enontekiö municipality, located in Finnish Lapland, the largest and northernmost region in Finland.

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Kilpisjärvi

Kilpisjärvi (Gilbbesjávri) is a village in the municipality of Enontekiö, Lapland, Finland.

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Kouvola

Kouvola is a city in Finland and the administrative capital of Kymenlaakso.

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Kuopio

Kuopio is a city in Finland and the regional capital of North Savo.

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Latency (engineering)

Latency, from a general point of view, is a time delay between the cause and the effect of some physical change in the system being observed.

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Latitude

In geography, latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body.

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Latvia

Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

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Leap second

A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to accommodate the difference between precise time (International Atomic Time (TAI), as measured by atomic clocks) and imprecise observed solar time (UT1), which varies due to irregularities and long-term slowdown in the Earth's rotation.

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Light effects on circadian rhythm

Light effects on circadian rhythm are the response of circadian rhythms to light.

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List of extreme points of Finland

This is a list of the extreme points of Finland, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location, as well as points of highest and lowest elevation.

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List of time zones by country

This is a list representing time zones by country.

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List of tz database time zones

This is a list of time zones from release of the tz database.

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List of UTC offsets

This is a list of the UTC time offsets, showing the difference in hours and minutes from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), from the westernmost (−12:00) to the easternmost (+14:00).

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Local mean time

Local mean time (LMT) is a form of solar time that corrects the variations of local apparent time, forming a uniform time scale at a specific longitude.

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Longitude

Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east–west position of a point on the surface of the Earth, or another celestial body.

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Mariehamn

Mariehamn (Maarianhamina; Portus Mariae) is the capital of Åland, an autonomous territory under Finnish sovereignty.

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Meridian (geography)

In geography and geodesy, a meridian is the locus connecting points of equal longitude, which is the angle (in degrees or other units) east or west of a given prime meridian (currently, the IERS Reference Meridian).

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Midnight sun

Midnight sun, also known as polar day, is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle, when the Sun remains visible at the local midnight.

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Ministry of Finance (Finland)

The Ministry of Finance (FM, Valtiovarainministeriö, Finansministeriet) is one of the 12 ministries which comprise the Finnish Government.

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Ministry of Justice (Finland)

The Ministry of Justice (oikeusministeriö, justitieministeriet) is one of the 12 ministries which comprise the Finnish Government.

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Ministry of Transport and Communications (Finland)

The Ministry of Transport and Communications (LVM, liikenne- ja viestintäministeriö, kommunikationsministeriet) is one of the twelve ministries which comprise the Finnish Government.

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Moscow Time

Moscow Time (MSK, moskovskoye vremya) is the time zone for the city of Moscow, Russia, and most of western Russia, including Saint Petersburg.

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Muotkavaara

,;, Муоткавара or,, or) is a hill in Lapland at the boundary between Finland, Norway, and Russia. It is the second northernmost international tripoint in the world; the tripoint of Finland, Norway and Sweden is further to the north. The Finnish side belongs to the Inari Municipality, the Norwegian side belongs to Sør-Varanger Municipality, and the Russian side belongs to Nikel Municipality.

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Nanosecond

A nanosecond (ns) is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one billionth of a second, that is, of a second, or 10 seconds.

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National Institute of Standards and Technology

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.

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Network Time Protocol

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a networking protocol for clock synchronization between computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks.

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Nordic countries

The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden) are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic.

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North Savo

North Savo (or Northern Savonia; Pohjois-Savo; Norra Savolax) is a region in eastern Finland.

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OECD

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.

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Office of Public Sector Information

The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is the body responsible for the operation of His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) and of other public information services of the United Kingdom.

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Ostrobothnia Chamber of Commerce

The Ostrobothnia Chamber of Commerce (Pohjanmaan kauppakamari; Österbottens handelskammare) is a business organization and one of the 19 regional Chambers of Commerce in Finland.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Paris Observatory

The Paris Observatory (Observatoire de Paris), a research institution of the Paris Sciences et Lettres University, is the foremost astronomical observatory of France, and one of the largest astronomical centers in the world.

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Parliament of Finland

The Parliament of Finland is the unicameral and supreme legislature of Finland, founded on 9 May 1906.

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Polar night

Polar night is a phenomenon in the northernmost and southernmost regions of Earth where night lasts for more than 24 hours.

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POSIX

The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems.

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Posti Group

Group (previously during 1994–2007 and during 2007–2015), trading internationally as Posti Group Corporation, is the main Finnish postal service delivering mail and parcels in Finland.

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Prime meridian

A prime meridian is an arbitrarily-chosen meridian (a line of longitude) in a geographic coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0°.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.

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Rail transport

Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Riihimäki–Saint Petersburg railway

The Riihimäki–Saint Petersburg railway is a long segment of the Helsinki–Saint Petersburg connection, which is divided between Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast in Russia and the province of Southern Finland in Finland.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Schedule

A schedule or a timetable, as a basic time-management tool, consists of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place, or of a sequence of events in the chronological order in which such things are intended to take place.

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Sodankylä

Sodankylä (Soađegilli; Suáđigil; Suäʹđjel) is a municipality of Finland.

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Solar time

Solar time is a calculation of the passage of time based on the position of the Sun in the sky.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Standard time

Standard time is the synchronization of clocks within a geographical region to a single time standard, rather than a local mean time standard.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.

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Sunrise

Sunrise (or sunup) is the moment when the upper rim of the Sun appears on the horizon in the morning.

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Sunset

Sunset (or sundown) is the disappearance of the Sun below the horizon of the Earth (or any other astronomical object in the Solar System) due to its rotation.

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Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (Sveriges meteorologiska och hydrologiska institut, SMHI) is a Swedish government agency and operates under the Ministry of the Environment.

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Telecommunications

Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information with an immediacy comparable to face-to-face communication.

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Telegraphy

Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message.

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Telephone

A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly.

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The World Factbook

The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.

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Tietosanakirja

The Tietosanakirja ("Encyclopedia", lit. "knowledge word-book", "knowledge dictionary"), published in 11 volumes from 1909 to 1922, was the first Finnish language encyclopedia.

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Time in Estonia

Estonia uses Eastern European Time (EET) (UTC+02:00) during winter, and Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) (UTC+03:00) during summer.

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Time in Europe

Europe spans seven primary time zones (from UTC−01:00 to UTC+05:00), excluding summer time offsets (five of them can be seen on the map, with one further-western zone containing the Azores, and one further-eastern zone spanning the Ural regions of Russia and European part of Kazakhstan).

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Time in Finland

Finland uses Eastern European Time (EET) during the winter as standard time and Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) during the summer as daylight saving time. Time in Finland and time in Finland are geography of Finland.

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Time in Latvia

Time in Latvia is given by Eastern European Time (EET; UTC+02:00).

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Time in Norway

In Norway the standard time is the Central European Time (CET).

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Time in Russia

There are 11 time zones in Russia, which currently observe times ranging from UTC+02:00 to UTC+12:00.

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Time in Sweden

In Sweden, the standard time is Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00; centraleuropeisk tid).

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Time standard

A time standard is a specification for measuring time: either the rate at which time passes or points in time or both.

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Time zone

A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes.

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Tripoint

A triple border, tripoint, trijunction, triple point, or tri-border area is a geographical point at which the boundaries of three countries or subnational entities meet.

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Turku

Turku (Åbo) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland.

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Tz database

The tz database is a collaborative compilation of information about the world's time zones and rules for observing daylight saving time, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems.

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United States Naval Observatory

The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) is a scientific and military facility that produces geopositioning, navigation and timekeeping data for the United States Navy and the United States Department of Defense.

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Universal Time

Universal Time (UT or UT1) is a time standard based on Earth's rotation.

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UTC+01:00

UTC+01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +01:00.

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UTC+02:00

UTC+02:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +02:00.

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UTC+03:00

UTC+03:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +03:00.

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UTC+12:00

UTC+12:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +12:00.

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UTC−12:00

UTC−12:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −12:00.

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Uusi Suomi

Uusi Suomi was a Finnish daily newspaper that was published from 1919 to 1991.

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Vaba Maa

Vaba Maa ('Free Country') was a daily newspaper in Estonia, published from Tallinn.

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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd is a state-owned and controlled non-profit limited liability company.

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Walpurgis Night

Walpurgis Night, an abbreviation of Saint Walpurgis Night (from the German Sankt-Walpurgisnacht), also known as Saint Walpurga's Eve (alternatively spelled Saint Walburga's Eve), is the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess in Francia, and is celebrated on the night of 30 April and the day of 1 May.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Finland

Also known as Daylight saving time in Finland, Europe/Helsinki, Europe/Mariehamn, Helsinki time, Time in Åland.

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