Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!burl!hou3c!RSX-DEV@DEC-MARLBORO.ARPA From: RSX-DEV@DEC-MARLBORO.ARPA Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: What time zone is Alaska in? Message-ID: <189@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Jan-84 09:43:48 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.189 Posted: Thu Jan 26 09:43:48 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Feb-84 04:45:37 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 16 Posted-Date: 26 Jan 1984 0102-EST Enet-Address: "Castor::Covert" Phone: "(603) 884-8271 or DTN 264-8271" Usenet-Address: "{ucbvax,allegra,decvax}!decwrl!rhea!castor!covert" What you heard on the radio is almost true. Alaska used to have FOUR time zones: Bering for the Aleutian Islands and the mainland points along the Bering Sea and Strait, Alaska for most of the state, Yukon for ONLY Yakutat, and Pacific for the area around Juneau. Now there are two. All the mainland points (including Juneau!) have moved to Yukon time (UCT-9). The Aleutians are now on what used to be Alaska time (UCT-10) -- the same as Hawaii time. But the people at the Weather Station at Shemya don't know what the name of their timezone is. Since this was done on the day they would have otherwise dropped from BDT back to BST, they think they're still on Bering Time (since they didn't change time). --------