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Because of Anchorage's high latitude, summer days are very long and winter daylight hours are very short. The longest day of sunlight being 18hrs and 21 minutes, and shortest being 5 hours and 28 minutes. [3] Anchorage is often cloudy during the winter, which decreases the amount of sunlight experienced by residents.
Daylight is the combination of all direct and indirect sunlight during the daytime. This includes direct sunlight , diffuse sky radiation , and (often) both of these reflected by Earth and terrestrial objects, like landforms and buildings.
For instance, in Fairbanks, Alaska, which is south of the Arctic Circle, the Sun sets at 12:47 a.m. at the summer solstice. This is because Fairbanks is 51 minutes (1 hour and 51 minutes at Daylight Savings Time) ahead of its idealized time zone (as most of the state is in one time zone) and Alaska observes daylight saving time.
When daylight saving time ends and the clocks "fall back" each fall, it feels like the amount of daylight is getting shorter and shorter. This is true. While adjusting our clocks back an hour in ...
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This zone was renamed in 1983 [3] to Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time when the majority of Alaska was moved out of the zone. Prior to 1983, the current Alaska Time Zone (UTC−09:00) was known as the Yukon Time Zone, observing Yukon Standard Time (YST). This time zone included Canada's Yukon Territory and a small portion of Alaska including Yakutat.
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During the holidays, there are 33 delivery planes a day which fly in and out of Anchorage, Alaska, carrying about 80,000 packages. In Alaska, Santa's helpers work around the clock to deliver ...