Time
The flag is flown from 8 AM to sunset; however, even in summer at most to 9 PM. There are three exceptions:
- on Midsummer the flag is flown from 6 PM on Midsummer Eve to 9 PM on Midsummer Day
- on Independence Day the flag is flown from 8 AM to 8 PM.
- on election days, if the election goes on after sunset, the flag is flown from 8 AM to 8 PM
Read more about this topic: Flag Days In Finland
Famous quotes containing the word time:
“There is a time when even justice brings harm.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“Allow time to adjust the plow, then there will be plenty of plowing.”
—Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993)
“The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.”
—Nancy Reagan (b. 1923)