Wake, United States Minor Outlying Islands · UTC+12
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Wake Island is in the Wake Island Time zone (WAKT/UTC+12). The US territory has no civilian population and keeps a fixed UTC+12 offset.
Wake Island is a coral atoll in the central Pacific, roughly 3,700 kilometers west-northwest of Honolulu. It has no indigenous population and never has. The island is an unincorporated US territory administered by the US Air Force and Department of the Interior, with a small population of military and contractor personnel.
Wake keeps UTC+12 (Pacific/Wake), placing it among the first occupied locations to enter each new calendar day. The timezone choice is practical for the military installation: coordination with Guam (UTC+10) and Hawaii (UTC-10) defines the operational day.
Pacific War and the Date Line
The island entered history on December 8, 1941, when Japanese forces attacked simultaneously with Pearl Harbor. The Wake Island garrison, a combination of US Marines and civilian contractors, held out for 15 days before surrendering on December 23, 1941. The battle is remembered in American military history as one of the most determined defensive stands of the Pacific War. The date discrepancy (Pearl Harbor was December 7 in Hawaii, but December 8 at Wake, due to the International Date Line) illustrates exactly how timezone boundaries affect the recording of history.
The lagoon inside the atoll is home to sea turtles, seabirds, and remarkable coral. The military residents see the sunsets and the phosphorescent nights.
9am on Wake is 9pm the previous day in London. Tarawa in Kiribati shares the UTC+12 timezone.
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Questions about time in Wake
- What timezone is Wake in?
- Wake uses the IANA timezone
Pacific/Wake. The UTC offset is always UTC+12 — this timezone does not observe daylight saving time. - Does Wake observe daylight saving time?
- No. Wake does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+12 all year round.
- What is the current UTC offset for Wake?
- Wake is currently at UTC+12.
- What is the time difference between Wake and New York?
- Wake is currently 16 hours ahead of New York.
- What is the time difference between Wake and London?
- Wake is currently 11 hours ahead of London.
- What is the time difference between Wake and Los Angeles?
- Wake is currently 19 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Wake and Tokyo?
- Wake is currently 3 hours ahead of Tokyo.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Wake?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Wake is
Pacific/Wake. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Pacific/Wake' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Pacific/Wake')`), or any IANA-compatible library.