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The largest city in the Alaskan Time Zone is Anchorage, Alaska. The Anchorage Metropolitan Area is the largest metropolitan area in the zone. Effective from 2007, the local time changes from AKST to AKDT at 02:00 AKST to 03:00 AKDT on the second Sunday in March and returns at 02:00 AKDT to 01:00 AKST on the first Sunday in November.
For example, Sitka, the capital of Alaska at the time, at longitude 135°20′W, had a local time equivalent to UTC+14:59 under Russia and UTC−09:01 under the United States. [ 7 ] In 1900, "Alaska Standard Time" was established within the state as UTC−09:00 .
Alaska. Except Aleutian Islands west of 169.30°W [1] Hall Island (Alaska), at longitude 173°6′W, is the westernmost area of Alaska that observes UTC−09:00, but is far west of the theoretical zone limits (−142.5° to −127.5° longitude). Its position equates to a mean solar time of UTC−11:32.
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Alaska Time Zone (UTC−09:00; Zone V), which comprises most of the state of Alaska. Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zone (no daylight saving in Hawaii, UTC−10:00; zone W), which includes Hawaii and most of the length of the Aleutian Islands chain (west of 169°30′W).
Anchorage, [a] officially the Municipality of Anchorage, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alaska.With a population of 291,247 at the 2020 census, [5] [9] it contains nearly 40 percent of the state's population.
Front page of the Anchorage Daily News, Sept. 11, 2006. The Anchorage Daily News is a daily newspaper published by the Binkley Co., and based in Anchorage, Alaska. It is the most widely read newspaper and news website (adn.com) in the state of Alaska. The newspaper is headquartered in Anchorage, with bureaus in Wasilla and Juneau.