Convert AKST to WAT

WAT is 10 hours ahead of AKST. AKST is UTC−9 and WAT is UTC+1.

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Standard 9–5 working hours do not overlap at all between AKST and WAT. Someone has to take an early or late call — or use asynchronous communication instead.

AKST to WAT conversion table

About AKST

Alaska Standard Time (AKST) is UTC−9. It is used in Anchorage and the rest of Alaska in winter.

Alaska Standard Time is UTC−9, one hour behind Pacific Standard Time. Alaska observes daylight saving on the US schedule, moving to AKDT at UTC−8 in summer. The state is wide enough to span four time zones geographically and chooses to run on one for practical reasons, which is why the sun can rise at very different clock times at either end of it.

About WAT

West Africa Time (WAT) is UTC+1. It is used in Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola and much of central and western Africa.

West Africa Time is UTC+1 all year, with no daylight saving anywhere that uses it. It covers Lagos, Kinshasa and Luanda — a very large population on a single fixed offset. It matches Central European Time in winter and falls an hour behind it in summer, which means a standing Europe–Nigeria meeting moves twice a year at the European end and never at the African one.

Does this gap change with the seasons?

Neither AKST nor WAT shifts with the seasons, so this 10-hour difference holds all year. That is unusual enough to be worth relying on: most cross-continental gaps move twice a year.

This is the reason scheduling systems store an IANA zone such as Region/City rather than an offset or an abbreviation: the zone knows its own rules and the offset does not.

Frequently asked questions

Other AKST conversions

• AKST to UTC
• AKST to GMT
• AKST to EST
• AKST to EDT
• AKST to CST
• AKST to CDT
• AKST to MST
• AKST to MDT
• AKST to PST
• AKST to PDT
• AKST to HST
• AKST to BRT
• AKST to BST
• AKST to CET
• AKST to CEST
• AKST to EET

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