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

History

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 A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, Commerce, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between Country, countries and their Administrative division, subdivisions instead of ...

was GMT +0h 19m 32.13s until 1 July 1937, when it was simplified to GMT +0h 20m. When

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Berlin Time The time zone in Germany is Central European Time (, ''MEZ''; UTC+01:00) and Central European Summer Time (, ''MESZ''; UTC+02:00). Daylight saving time is observed from the last Sunday in March (02:00 CET) to the last Sunday in October (03:00 CE ...

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

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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. The fundamental unit of solar time is the day, based on the synodic rotation period. Traditionally, there are three types of time reckoning based ...

of the

Westertoren The Westerkerk (; ) is a Reformed church within Dutch Protestant Calvinism in central Amsterdam, Netherlands. It lies in the most western part of the Grachtengordel neighborhood ( Centrum borough), next to the Jordaan, between the Prinsengracht ...

(4° 53' 01.95" E Longitude), the tower of the Westerkerk church in Amsterdam. UTC+00:20 was also used as

daylight saving time Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight savings time, daylight time (Daylight saving time in the United States, United States and Daylight saving time in Canada, Canada), or summer time (British Summer Time, United Kingdom, ...

in the British colony Gold Coast between 1919 and 1942. Gold Coast (1910–1936). "Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern territories, and Togoland under British mandate".

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. p. 76.
The Determination of the Time Ordinance, 1919 (No. 18 of 1919)
, 2 November 1919. Retrieved 7 July 2021.

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External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Utc plus 00:20 UTC offsets 20th century in the Netherlands History of science and technology in the Netherlands Time in the Netherlands