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North American time zones:

AKST – Alaska Standard Time

Important

AKST is currently not observed because locations are on Daylight Saving Time.

During this time of year, locations on AKST are now on AKDT (Alaska Daylight Time) instead.

Currently no cities are observing AKST

Locations going to AKST later

Current time in Anchorage: Friday, August 2, 2013 at 11:21:33 AM AKDT
Anchorage will stay on AKDT until Sunday, November 3, 2013 going to AKST

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Time zone offset: UTC - 9 hours

AKST is 9 hours behind of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Note that most places observe daylight saving time/summer time during summer, and are therefore using AKDT instead in the summer. See below for details.

Time zone abbreviations: AKST, HNY

Full name is Alaska Standard Time
HNY – Heure Normale du Yukon (French)

Email time zone indicator: -0900

An email sent from someone in the AKST time zone will have the time zone listed as "-0900" in the headers of the email. (However, "-0900" does not have to be in AKST, as other time zones could have the same UTC offset).

For actual dates DST might be observed, look at the examples below

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Where and when is AKST observed?

US states using AKST in the winter and AKDT during the summer

Alaska - most, except Aleutian Islands west of 169.30 West (which use HAST/HADT)

Time zone maps are under development and will be available later

Example location in AKST

Anchorage - This time zone offset is used during winter 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
AKDT - Alaska Daylight 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