![]() This also meant eliminating Bering Sea time, and those in Kotzebue and Nome shifted their clocks ahead an hour. Those in a small segment between Southeast and Southcentral would turn their clocks back one hour - off of Yukon Standard Time. Clocks in Southeast shifted back two full hours, away from Pacific Standard Time. 30 of that year, clocks in Anchorage and Fairbanks didn’t change because daylight saving time was ending, which would usually have prompted setting the clock back one hour. Department of Transportation consolidated the time zones and a New York Times report called it the “one of the most comprehensive time zone changes in the last century.”Īlaska students would have to walk to school in the dark each winter, state employees would get more daylight at the end of the day and the change would stir less confusion among tourists flying from Nome to Anchorage, news reports at the time declared. It was 1983, and the relatively young state spanned four total time zones, fracturing the state into a puzzle of different moments in the day from Juneau to the Aleutians, which, according to news reports, was a boast on Alaska postcards. But even today, a slice of the Aleutian Islands is still an hour behind the rest of the state.Ī part of the Alaska mystique died that year - at least, according to one account from the Daily News. ![]() Question: What happened to all the different Alaska time zones?Ĭurious Alaska: In the 1980s, Alaska reduced its number of time zones from four to two. What do you want to know or want us to investigate about life in Alaska, stories behind the news or why things are the way they are? Let us know in the form at the bottom of the story. ![]() Curious Alaska is a weekly feature powered by your questions. ![]()
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