Convert EAT to AKST

AKST is 12 hours behind EAT. EAT is UTC+3 and AKST is UTC−9.

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

EAT to AKST conversion table

About EAT

East Africa Time (EAT) is UTC+3. It is used in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and Somalia.

East Africa Time is UTC+3 and fixed. Nairobi, Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam all keep it. Ethiopia additionally uses a clock that counts from dawn rather than midnight for everyday purposes, six hours off the international one, so a time given locally in Addis may need converting twice rather than once.

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.

Does this gap change with the seasons?

Neither EAT nor AKST shifts with the seasons, so this 12-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 EAT conversions

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

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