NORWAY ISLAND LAUNCHES WORLD'S FIRST TIME-FREE ZONE
Don't you wish those long
summer days could last forever? An island in northern Norway is campaigning to
do just that.
With the Northern
Hemisphere's summer solstice just around the corner on June 21,
Sommarøy -- meaning "Summer Island" -- wants to swap its watches for
flower garlands and declare itself the world's first time-free zone.
On this island in West Tromsø,
north of the Arctic Circle, the sun doesn't set from May 18 right through to
July 26, a full 69 days.
The locals, having endured the
long polar night from November to January, when the sun doesn't rise at all,
make the most of these precious months, with no regard to conventional
timekeeping.
"There's constantly
daylight, and we act accordingly," says islander Kjell Ove Hveding in a
statement. "In the middle of the night, which city folk might call '2
a.m.,' you can spot children playing soccer, people painting their houses or
mowing their lawns, and teens going for a swim."




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