Alaska
Time
What time is it in
Alaska Time Zone / Current time
USA & Canada clocks
on Daylight Saving Time
until Sunday 1 November 2009
see: Daylight-Saving-Time.com
for details
USA Standard Time Date schedules
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Alaska Standard Time (AKST) =
GMT-9
Alaska Daylight Time (AKDT) =
GMT-8
What time zone is
Alaska Time in?
Most of Alaska is 9 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time
(GMT-9). Almost all of Alaska is in the Alaska Time Zone. The western
most Aleutian islands and St. Lawrence island are on Hawaii-Aleutian
Time, which are 10 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT-10) and where
Daylight-Saving Time is not observed
Does
Alaska Time observe Daylight Saving Time?
Like most states in the U.S., Daylight Saving Time is
observed in Alaska, where the time is shifted forward by 1 hour, resulting
in an 8 hours difference behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT-8).
After the Summer months the time is shifted back by 1
hour resulting in the normal 9 hours difference behind GMT.
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