Greenland, like most European nations, switched over to daylight saving time on March 25, moving their clocks one hour forward for the very last time.

Come autumn, residents of Greenland will leave their clocks untouched when daylight saving time ends.

While Europe and the US debate whether to stick to the twice-yearly practice, Greenland, a vast Danish semi-independent territory in the Arctic – has resolved to continually remain only three hours behind Copenhagen and most other European countries instead of four.

On November 24, 2022, Greenland’s parliament voted to stick to daylight saving time year-round.

Officials say it will give Greenlanders another hour of daylight in the afternoons and more time to do business with Europe and farther afield.

“The shift of time zone marks an exciting new beginning, an equal connection to North America and Europe, and an opportunity to slow down in a fast-paced world,” Visit Greenland, the local government’s tourism office said in a statement.

Geographically, sparsely populated Greenland belongs to the North American continent but geopolitically, it is in Europe.

Greenland is part the Danish Realm and its southernmost tip is more than 3,200 kilometers (nearly 2,000 miles) west of Copenhagen.

Its 56,000 people mainly Inuit, indigenous people who chiefly live on the west coast in small towns and hamlets or remote coastal settlements.