Daylight Saving Time brings longer evenings to Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The time to ‘spring’ your clocks forward an hour is near, as the time change is set for March 8 at 2:00 a.m.

Currently, the sun comes up earlier in the day and sets earlier in the afternoon. With the time change, the sunrise will roll through an hour later in the morning, but that shift will provide more daylight for the evening.

Though Alaskans have only recently gained back their daylight, it’ll only take two to three weeks to see the sunrise at what it was before Daylight Saving Time.

Currently, the sunrise in Anchorage is around 7:40 AM with the sunsetting at 6:40 PM. By Sunday, the sunrise will be 8:37 AM with the sunset around 7:44 PM.

Vernal Equinox, or Spring Equinox, commences on March 20th, marking the start to the astronomical spring season. By March 20th, most of the state will reach nearly 12 hours and 30 minutes of daylength, with more and more daylight in each passing day.

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