How are drivers supposed to perform disk parking in Norway?

On the first day of my road trip trough Norway, I stopped at a small town that offered 1 hour of disc parking. Having arrived a bit past the hour, I set my European standard blue parking disc to the next half-hour increment, [as is common in most of Europe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_parking). Having returned after 35 minutes, I found to have received a parking fine as the parking disc was set to a time in the future.

How are Norwegian drivers supposed to set their parking disc? Do you round down the arrival time? Do you set it roughly in between markers? What if there is only half an hour of disc parking offered? Would I be able to contest this?

Thanks in advance for the insights.

7 comments

  1. I had no idea parking discs were usable in Norway. I can’t remember seeing anyone use one in the past decade at least.

    Just doing some quick googling it appears that you should set it to the time you parked the car. So in that case the ticket is justified, you set the wrong time.

  2. In the wiki you linked for disk parking it say you should set it at the time you parked there.

    If you set it half an hour ahead of that it would be set at a time in the future and not valid.

  3. Had no idea people still used those. But isnt the whole point to set the disk to the actual time you parked it? So that the parking officer sees it when checking out the car?
    By setting it 30 min ahead you’re basically cheating the parking trying to get 1hr 30min parking instead of 1hr.

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