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Satellite image of Bering Strait. Cape Dezhnev, Russia, is on the left, the two Diomede Islands are in the middle, and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, is on the right. The Bering Strait is about 82 kilometers (51 mi) wide at its narrowest point, between Cape Dezhnev, Chukchi Peninsula, Russia, the easternmost point (169° 39' W) of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, United ...
The tz database partitions the world into regions where local clocks all show the same time. This map was made by combining version 2023d with OpenStreetMap data, using open source software. [1] This is a list of time zones from release 2025a of the tz database. [2]
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]
The text of the 1867 treaty between the United States and Russia, which finalized the Alaska Purchase uses the islands to designate the boundary between the two nations: the border separates "equidistantly Krusenstern Island, or Ignaluk, from Ratmanov Island, or Nunarbuk, and heads northward infinitely until it disappears completely in the ...
Time Offsets DST Details Map Alabama: UTC−06:00 CT: Yes: Central Standard Time (Phenix City observes Eastern time on a de facto basis) Alaska: UTC−09:00 AKT Yes Most of state: UTC−09:00 AKST Alaska Standard Time: UTC−10:00 HT Aleutian Islands (west of 169°30' W): UTC−10:00 HST Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time American Samoa: UTC−11: ...
Time zones of the world. A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between countries and their subdivisions instead of strictly following longitude, because it is convenient for areas in frequent communication to keep the same time.
Before the adoption of four standard time zones for the continental United States, many towns and cities set their clocks to noon when the sun passed their local meridian, pre-corrected for the equation of time on the date of observation, to form local mean solar time. Noon occurred at different times but time differences between distant ...
In 1900, "Alaska Standard Time" was established within the state as UTC−09:00. [8] In 1918, the United States Congress passed the Standard Time Act, which defined a standard time zone for Alaska - United States Standard Alaska Time, set at UTC−10:00. [9] On January 20, 1942, all of the United States, including Alaska, began to observe War ...