North American time zones:
AKDT – Alaska Daylight Time
Current time in Anchorage
Friday, August 2, 2013 at 11:21:22 AM AKDT
Anchorage will stay on AKDT until Sunday, November 3, 2013 at 2:00 AMwhen clocks are moved to Sunday, November 3, 2013 at 01:00:00AKST
Find local time and time zone for a location
We recommend looking up by location name, not time zone name.Time zone offset: UTC - 8 hours
AKDT is 8 hours behind of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)Note that AKDT is a daylight saving time/summer time zone. It is generally only used during the summer in the places listed below, during the winter AKST is used instead
Time zone abbreviations: AKDT, HAY
Full name is Alaska Daylight TimeHAY – Heure Avancée du Yukon (French)
Email time zone indicator: -0800
An email sent from someone in the AKDT time zone will have the time zone listed as "-0800" in the headers of the email. (However, "-0800" does not have to be in AKDT, as other time zones could have the same UTC offset).
For actual dates DST might be observed, look at the examples belowWhere and when is AKDT observed?
US states using AKDT in the summer and AKST during the winter
Time zone maps are under development and will be available laterExample location in AKDT
- Anchorage - This time zone offset is used during summer in this location
Other time zones in North America
Go directly through the links below, or see the North America time zone list- ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time
- AKST - Alaska Standard Time
- AST - Atlantic Standard Time
- CDT - Central Daylight Time
- CST - Central Standard Time
- EDT - Eastern Daylight Time
- EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
- EGT - East Greenland Time
- EST - Eastern Standard Time
- HADT - Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time
- HAST - Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time
- MDT - Mountain Daylight Time
- MST - Mountain Standard Time
- NDT - Newfoundland Daylight Time
- NST - Newfoundland Standard Time
- PDT - Pacific Daylight Time
- PMDT - Pierre & Miquelon Daylight Time
- PMST - Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time
- PST - Pacific Standard Time
- WGST - Western Greenland Summer Time
- WGT - West Greenland Time
Time zones in other regions
- Africa
- Antarctica
- Asia
- Atlantic
- Australia
- Caribbean
- Central America
- Europe
- Indian Ocean
- Military
- Pacific
- South America
Related links
- Time zone abbreviations world-wide
- The World Clock - Time Zones - current time around the world
- The World Clock - Time Zone Converter - Convert between time zones