Daylight Savings Time - Where do you stand?

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55. Come to Sweden and feel the 2 PM darkness starting here in Stockholm, when standard time starts

and then really starts to kick in.

Or basically no true daylight in the northern part of the country for a month or so (polar night), lolol.

Northern Norway and Finland are even worse.

Regions within the Arctic Circle go into polar night early December and will stay there for a while – up to 179 days right at the pole. Polar night is when the sun does not rise, but in most cases in the Arctic Circle it manifests in permanent twilight, getting darker the more north and the closer to the pole you go.

'Noon' in Svalbard in January. It is the large Arctic archipelago belonging to Norway. It displaces more of the surface of the earth than Great Britain when you count the waters within its furthest land borders for the 6 largest parts (Spetsbergen, Nordaustlandet, Edgeøya, Barentsøya, Vitön, and Prins Karls Forland), not even counting its more remote smaller islands:



same scale