UTC+00:20

UTC+00:20
UTC+00:20
Time zone
UTC offset
UTC	UTC+00:20
Current time
	14:48, 29 May 2024 UTC+00:20 [ refresh ]
Central meridian
	5 degrees E
Date-time group

UTC+00:20 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +00:20.

History [ edit ]

UTC+00:20 was used in the Netherlands from 1 May 1909 to 16 May 1940. It was known as Amsterdam Time or Dutch Time .

The exact time zone was GMT +0h 19m 32.13s until 1 July 1937, when it was simplified to GMT +0h 20m. When Germany occupied the Netherlands in World War II , Berlin Time was adopted, and this has been retained ever since.

The reason for the specific offset of +0h 19m 32.13s was that the time zone was centered on the mean solar time of the Westertoren (4° 53' 01.95" E Longitude), the tower of the Westerkerk church in Amsterdam.

UTC+00:20 was also used as daylight saving time in the British colony Gold Coast between 1919 and 1942. ^[1]

References [ edit ]

^ Gold Coast (1910?1936). "Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern territories, and Togoland under British mandate". Government of Ghana . p. 76. " The Determination of the Time Ordinance, 1919 (No. 18 of 1919) ", 2 November 1919. Retrieved 7 July 2021.

External links [ edit ]

Albertus Antonie Nijland, " Time in Holland ", The Observatory , 32 (1909), 301.
Wettelijke tijdregeling in Nederland (in Dutch)

[1] Gold Coast (1910?1936). "Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern territories, and Togoland under British mandate". Government of Ghana . p. 76. " The Determination of the Time Ordinance, 1919 (No. 18 of 1919) ", 2 November 1919. Retrieved 7 July 2021.

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