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Its timetables were noted in a common mean time, measured at the Helsinki University Observatory from the mean time of UTC+01:39:49.2, [c] known as "Helsinki time". [ 2 ] [ 5 ] A ball was released at noon and its falling was noted optically at the railway station and the clock adjusted accordingly.
In Finland, the usual way of writing dates in normal text is with the months spelled out. [1] [2] The format varies according to the language used.In Finnish, a full stop (full point, dot or period) is placed after the day to indicate an ordinal: 31. toukokuuta 2002; furthermore, the month is in the partitive case, always marked by -ta.
Helsinki [a] [b] is the capital and most populous city in Finland.It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About 685,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.3 million in the capital region and 1.61 million in the metropolitan area.
People cross a snow covered railway in Helsinki, Finland, on April 23, 2024, as an unusual weather system brought trams in the city to a halt. - Alessandro Rampazzo/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Time in Finland is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so. This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on July 7, 2022.
Helsingfors 1776-1777. Helsinki was founded by Swedish King Gustav I in 1550 as the town of Helsingfors.Gustav intended for the town to serve the purpose of consolidating trade in the southern part of Finland and providing a competitor to Reval (today: Tallinn), a nearby Hanseatic League city which dominated local trade at the time.
Helsinki Times one-year anniversary advertisement on a Helsinki Tram in 2008. Helsinki Times was established in April 2007 by Iranian-born doctor, writer, journalist and director Alexis Kouros, who settled in Finland in 1990. [1] A paper version was published in tabloid format [2] and was eventually discontinued in February 2015. [3]
Hotel Torni (Hotel Tower) is a historical tower hotel popular for its panorama bar view overlooking downtown Helsinki. At the time of its completion in 1931, it was among the tallest buildings in Finland. Library Oodi (Helsingin keskustakirjasto Oodi) 2018: The Helsinki Central Library Oodi is the central library of Helsinki, inaugurated late ...