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Yukon Standard Time
Yukon Standard Time is the informal name of a time zone established in 2020 and used in the territory of Yukon in Canada. "Yukon Standard Time" is more formally referred to as year-round Mountain Standard Time (MST) but unlike other Mountain Time (MT, or MST/MDT) regions it does not observe daylight saving time, giving it a year-round calculation by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) resulting in UTC−07:00. This time-zone is also used in northeastern areas of British Columbia.
Former Yukon Time Zone (pre-1984)
The previous Yukon Time Zone was a time zone in the United States and Canada. Yukon Standard Time (YST) was obtained by subtracting nine hours from UTC resulting in UTC−09:00. Yukon Daylight Time (YDT) when observed was eight hours behind UTC. In 1983, the United States restructured the UTC−09:00 based time zone and renamed it to Alaska Time Zone in 1984.
Extent and history
When it was created, the Yukon Time Zone included Yukon, and a small region around Yakutat, Alaska (Alaska had been spread across four different time zones at the time).
Yukon, which had adopted Yukon Standard Time in 1900, observed a one-hour advance in 1918 and 1919, and again year-round from February 1942 to September 1945 (Yukon War Time then, after V-J Day, Yukon Prevailing Time).
In 1965, from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in September, double daylight time – a two-hour advance – was observed. On July 1, 1966, most of the Yukon switched to Pacific Standard Time (PST), which is UTC−08:00, leaving Dawson City and Old Crow on Yukon time. The remaining area changed to the Pacific Time Zone on October 28, 1973, leaving only Yakutat on the Yukon Time Zone.
On October 30, 1983, coincident with the end of daylight saving time, Alaska switched in 1983 from four time zones to two time zones. The areas east of Yakutat set clocks back two hours to change from Pacific Daylight Time to what had been Yukon Standard Time, UTC−09:00, and the time zone was named Alaska Standard Time at the end of November 1984. Yakutat only set clocks back one hour on that date. Most of the remaining longitudes of Alaska left their clocks unchanged on that date, changing from Alaska-Hawaii Daylight Time (UTC−09:00) to the new Alaska Standard Time (UTC−09:00). Some areas that had been on Bering Time (UTC−11:00 in winter, UTC−10:00 in summer) such as Nome set their clocks ahead yet another hour on October 30, 1983 to adopt Alaska Standard Time (the former Yukon Standard Time), effectively changing their standard time zone by two hours. Most of the Aleutian Islands moved from the Bering Time Zone (UTC−11:00) to the Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time Zone (UTC−10:00) (which was known as the Alaska-Hawaii Standard Time Zone until 1984.)
In a motion brought forth in May 2017, the government of Yukon Territory began the process of ending the Daylight Saving Time changes in the territory. DST changeover was officially ended in Yukon on November 21st, 2020. This change re-established Yukon Standard Time as being a distinct time-zone from Pacific Time (PT, or PST/PDT).
See also
Notes
- UTC-based calculations began in 1972. Before that they were determined in reference to Greenwich Mean Time
References
- "Yukon Standard Time". 4 May 2023. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
- ^ Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1984. Section 2003. 97 Stat. 1153
- "AROUND THE NATION; Most of Alaska to Go Under One Time Zone". The New York Times. 1983-09-18. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
- "Yukon to end seasonal time change". 4 March 2020. Retrieved 2024-12-03.