Time changes?

[dread_pirate]

Another silly question - are there any time zone changes between Anchorage and Vancouver or Vancouver and Seattle?

Thanks!

[mapleleaves]

Seattle and Vancouver are in the same time zone.
It's an hour earlier in Anchorage.
ie 10:15am in Seattle is 9:15am Anchorage.

[lrowe70]

Not a silly question at all.
Alaska is on Alaska Time Zone, while BC and Seattle are on Pacific Time Zone.
Make sure to check what the ship time is because that is the time you will need to be back at port.

[pdmlynek]

Well, luckily this is not a big problem for most AK cruises, because the only changes are between Alaska and ports outside of AK, such as Seattle WA or Vancouver BC. Both Seattle and Vancouver tend to be terminal ports (either the first or last or both) in which case time change is not going to make you miss the ship. If Seattle or Vancouver is your embarkation point, you'll already have your watch set to Pacific Time. If Seattle of Vancouver is your debarkation point, then it wont matter because you do not have to get back on board.

But I can see three potential cases in which time change may be a problem:

(1) Flying out of SEA or YVR. If you are disembarking at Seattle or Vancouver, you'll have to make sure that your watch is set to the local time. Not because of missing your ship, but because of missing your plane.

(2) Victoria BC. Some ships out of Seattle or San Francisco or other WA/OR/CA ports that make a closed loop trips need to make stop in Victoria in order to comply with cabotage laws. Victoria is in the Pacific Time zone, same as Seattle and San Francisco. You have to make sure that you change you watch (or not change your watch) in order to be in synch with the ship time.

(3) Whitehorse YT. If you are going to go to Whitehorse, or any other town in Canada, while on an excursion out of Skagway AK, you need to make sure that you are paying attention to the boat time, and not to the clock on a wall in some salloon in Whitehorse.

[mrell345]

We just got back from the Radiance of the Seas southbound from Seward to Vancouver. We were on Alaskan time for all the Alaskan ports. The night we left Ketchikan we set our clocks ahead an hour, the next day was a sea day going down the inside passage and the next morning after that we arrived in Vancouver.