On this island in Norway, the sun doesn't set for a full 69 days, and locals have no regard for conventional timekeeping. Now, it wants to be the 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.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.
"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.
Hveding says local fishermen and women often spend days on the ocean pursuing their catch, with little regard to timetable.
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