What time is it NOW?

Esav Benyamin

Esav Benyamin

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Luckily and oddly enough, Arizona said "nope" to the DST. So it's the same time, all the time. We must remain content to never spring forward, or fall back. Steady as she goes. :)
 
We once had four time zones. Now except for the tip of the Alutions we have one. There was a bill this year that would put Southeast on pacific time and take the state off daylight savings time
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HISTORY OF TIME ZONES AND THE IMPACT OF DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME (DST) IN ALASKA:**

Use of time zones allows the position of the Sun to approximate the time of the day which is the principal behind the Sun Dial.**Arbitrary Time Zones became necessary when the relatively rapid movement from East to West by railroad made observation of local 'Sun Time' impractical. The Railroads simply could not manage train movements if every town along an East-West route had a different clock setting based on the position of the Sun.

**Prior to 1983 the State of Alaska was spanned by four time zones (Yukon, Alaska, Bering and Aleutian); however, Southeast Alaska, including the State Capital in Juneau, was in the Pacific Time Zone with Seattle where it had remained since WWII after being moved from the Yukon Time Zone. Before the time zone change, traveling East to West across Alaska when it was 12:00 PM in the Pacific Time Zone,* you would have found Juneau in the Pacific Time Zone (12:00PM), a small region around Yakutat in the Yukon Time Zone (1:00PM), Anchorage and Fairbanks in the Alaska Time Zone( 2:00PM),**Bethel, Nome, and Kotzebue in the Bering Time Zone (3:00 PM), and the Aleutian Islands in the Aleutian Time Zone (4:00 PM).

****That all changed in Alaska when the Federal Government allowed Alaska to merge into a single 'mega' time zone (defined as a new Alaska Time Zone)*with a second smaller time zone created at the far Western end of the Aleutian Islands which shared the time zone as Hawaii.**The motive for this change was an effort to moot the criticism that the Capital in Juneau, located in the Pacific Time Zone, was two hours ahead of Anchorage and Fairbanks.

*This change was accomplished by actually placing all of Alaska into the former Yukon Time Zone redefined as the new Alaska Time Zone.**To accomplish this in 1983,**Southeast set clocks back 1 hour, South central advanced clocks 1 hour, Western Alaska advanced clocks 2 hours and the new Aleutian Time Zone was changed to match the time in Hawaii.**This is why the time is the same in Alaska from Kotzebue to Juneau.

Daylight Saving Time was introduced to Alaska in 1967 and has been observed since. A consequence of continuing to observe DST after the 1983 time zone change was that, for everywhere except Southeast Alaska the original intent of time zones to allow an approximate alignment between the position of the Sun and the time of day was lost.**That alignment was not lost in Southeast Alaska.**In fact Southeast Alaska wound up back in their original Time Zone by leaving the Pacific Time Zone in 1983.**However, that was not true for most other Alaskans.**For example, advancing clocks one hour in Fairbanks and Anchorage in 1983 caused the Noon Hour on a sundial to occur at 1:00PM.**Advancing clocks one hour is how you observe daylight saving time, so after the 1983 change, South Central Alaska was on permanent daylight saving time and whereas the sun had been highest at Noon in Anchorage, now noon 'sun time' was at 1:00PM.**Add that additional hour when we 'spring forward' to observe DST and the Sun is at the highest position in sky at 2:00PM in Anchorage/Fairbanks and 3:00PM in Bethel/Nome/ Kotzebue.* This creates what is described as* 'double daylight saving' by Ned Rozell in his excellent article* 'Alaskans Double Their Daylight Savings'.



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Daylight saving time is a tax on time. I don't mind moving clocks back, but never forward. I cannot get enough daylight in the morning, and prefer a longer evening, earlier sunsets mean just that giving more time to unwind from the day. Nothing better than a scotch and a warm wood furnace on a winter evening.
 
From - The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot

HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME

HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME

Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight.
Ta ta. Goonight. Goonight.

Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.
 
akivory <<<<<<< could you at least elaborate more on this as I lost you on about the 3rd word you typed on this subject.!
What time is it anyway.? duhhhhhhhhh
My Watch say's 4:30pm ~~~~ is that right or do I need to re-set my wrist alarm..?
Must be time to eat south of here somewhere though -- ya reckon...? To many questions..!!******
 
Here is a link to sunrise and sunset information http://www.alaska.org/weather/daylight-hours
I pay attention to the sunrise times of locations. If I have to move again sunrise time is noteworthy, I prefer to get as much daylight possible for the mornings. The sun can never rise early enough for me.

akivory said:
We once had four time zones. Now except for the tip of the Alutions we have one. There was a bill this year that would put Southeast on pacific time and take the state off daylight savings time
.

HISTORY OF TIME ZONES AND THE IMPACT OF DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME (DST) IN ALASKA:**

Use of time zones allows the position of the Sun to approximate the time of the day which is the principal behind the Sun Dial.**Arbitrary Time Zones became necessary when the relatively rapid movement from East to West by railroad made observation of local 'Sun Time' impractical. The Railroads simply could not manage train movements if every town along an East-West route had a different clock setting based on the position of the Sun.

**Prior to 1983 the State of Alaska was spanned by four time zones (Yukon, Alaska, Bering and Aleutian); however, Southeast Alaska, including the State Capital in Juneau, was in the Pacific Time Zone with Seattle where it had remained since WWII after being moved from the Yukon Time Zone. Before the time zone change, traveling East to West across Alaska when it was 12:00 PM in the Pacific Time Zone,* you would have found Juneau in the Pacific Time Zone (12:00PM), a small region around Yakutat in the Yukon Time Zone (1:00PM), Anchorage and Fairbanks in the Alaska Time Zone( 2:00PM),**Bethel, Nome, and Kotzebue in the Bering Time Zone (3:00 PM), and the Aleutian Islands in the Aleutian Time Zone (4:00 PM).

****That all changed in Alaska when the Federal Government allowed Alaska to merge into a single 'mega' time zone (defined as a new Alaska Time Zone)*with a second smaller time zone created at the far Western end of the Aleutian Islands which shared the time zone as Hawaii.**The motive for this change was an effort to moot the criticism that the Capital in Juneau, located in the Pacific Time Zone, was two hours ahead of Anchorage and Fairbanks.

*This change was accomplished by actually placing all of Alaska into the former Yukon Time Zone redefined as the new Alaska Time Zone.**To accomplish this in 1983,**Southeast set clocks back 1 hour, South central advanced clocks 1 hour, Western Alaska advanced clocks 2 hours and the new Aleutian Time Zone was changed to match the time in Hawaii.**This is why the time is the same in Alaska from Kotzebue to Juneau.

Daylight Saving Time was introduced to Alaska in 1967 and has been observed since. A consequence of continuing to observe DST after the 1983 time zone change was that, for everywhere except Southeast Alaska the original intent of time zones to allow an approximate alignment between the position of the Sun and the time of day was lost.**That alignment was not lost in Southeast Alaska.**In fact Southeast Alaska wound up back in their original Time Zone by leaving the Pacific Time Zone in 1983.**However, that was not true for most other Alaskans.**For example, advancing clocks one hour in Fairbanks and Anchorage in 1983 caused the Noon Hour on a sundial to occur at 1:00PM.**Advancing clocks one hour is how you observe daylight saving time, so after the 1983 change, South Central Alaska was on permanent daylight saving time and whereas the sun had been highest at Noon in Anchorage, now noon 'sun time' was at 1:00PM.**Add that additional hour when we 'spring forward' to observe DST and the Sun is at the highest position in sky at 2:00PM in Anchorage/Fairbanks and 3:00PM in Bethel/Nome/ Kotzebue.* This creates what is described as* 'double daylight saving' by Ned Rozell in his excellent article* 'Alaskans Double Their Daylight Savings'.



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