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The Ohio Clock in the U.S. Capitol being turned forward for the country's first daylight saving time on March 31, 1918 by the Senate sergeant at arms Charles Higgins.. Most of the United States observes daylight saving time (DST), the practice of setting the clock forward by one hour when there is longer daylight during the day, so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less.
Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving(s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time.
The United States Standard Alaska Time was designated as UTC−10:00. [1] Some references prior to 1967 refer to this zone as Central Alaska Standard Time (CAST) [2] or as Alaska Standard Time (AKST). In 1966, the Uniform Time Act renamed the UTC−10:00 zone to Alaska-Hawaii Standard Time [3] (AHST [4]), effective April 1, 1967. [5]
Much of Alaska has plunged into a deep freeze, with temperatures well below zero. Anchorage has seen some of its coldest temperatures in years and the mayor opened warming facilities for people ...
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Average daytime summer temperatures range from approximately 55 to 78 °F (12.8 to 25.6 °C); [4] average daytime winter temperatures are about 5 to 30 °F (−15.0 to −1.1 °C). [4] Anchorage has a frost-free growing season that averages slightly over one hundred days.
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