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The largest city in the Alaskan Time Zone is Anchorage, Alaska. The Anchorage Metropolitan Area is the largest metropolitan area in the zone. Effective from 2007, the local time changes from AKST to AKDT at 02:00 AKST to 03:00 AKDT on the second Sunday in March and returns at 02:00 AKDT to 01:00 AKST on the first Sunday in November.
For example, Sitka, the capital of Alaska at the time, at longitude 135°20′W, had a local time equivalent to UTC+14:59 under Russia and UTC−09:01 under the United States. [ 7 ] In 1900, "Alaska Standard Time" was established within the state as UTC−09:00 .
Alaska. Except Aleutian Islands west of 169.30°W [1] Hall Island (Alaska), at longitude 173°6′W, is the westernmost area of Alaska that observes UTC−09:00, but is far west of the theoretical zone limits (−142.5° to −127.5° longitude). Its position equates to a mean solar time of UTC−11:32.
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Alaska Time Zone (UTC−09:00; Zone V), which comprises most of the state of Alaska. Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zone (no daylight saving in Hawaii, UTC−10:00; zone W), which includes Hawaii and most of the length of the Aleutian Islands chain (west of 169°30′W).
Anchorage is one hour behind the Pacific Time Zone, and receives the same network feed as the West Coast. Weekday primetime runs from 7 to 10 pm. Effectively, programs are viewed at the same local hour as those in the Central Time Zone. The city's only cable television provider is General Communication, Inc. (GCI).
Alaska Department of Public Safety, in a news release 2:30 p.m. local time Saturday, said all the bodies have been recovered and taken to Nome where they were identified by Alaska State Troopers.
Nov. 14—The Anchorage School District will not reopen schools for its nearly 50,000 students and staff Wednesday because not enough residential streets have been plowed, district officials said ...