hours from the minutes ( "1.27.36"). Fractions of a second are added using the comma as separator ( "1.27.36,30"). For time ranges, a hyphen is used ( "12–21" for noon till 9pm). In normal text, the time can also be spelled out using the 12-hour clock, with clarifications as needed ( nine in the morning: morning+nine → "aamuyhdeksältä"). The practice in Swedish is similar. Finland previously used the 12-hour clock, switching to 24-hour time in 1928 to comply with the 1926 Schedule Conference on European Railways' agreement for universal timetables across railways. IANA time zone database In the IANA time zone database, Finland is given two zones in the file zone.tab – Europe/Helsinki and Europe/Mariehamn for Åland. "AX" and "FI" refer to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes, the former being for Åland and the latter for the country in general. The table below displays data taken directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database. Columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: Computers which do not support "Europe/Helsinki" or "Europe/Mariehamn" may use the older POSIX syntax: TZ="EET-2EEST,M3.5.0/3,M10.5.0/4". See also Time in Europe Time in Estonia Time in Latvia Time in Norway Time in Russia Time in Sweden List of time zones by country List of time zones by UTC offset Notes and references Notes Citations Bibliography Further reading Digitised on Google Books, unless otherwise stated. External links Current time in Finland at Time.is Current time in Finland at SuomenAika.fi (in Finnish) Time in Finland at TimeAndDate.com Time in Finland