Ship Time

[DebC85]

I'll be sailing on the Norwegian Pearl to Alaska May 13, 2007. Our group is wondering if the arrival/departure times listed on our itinerary are "local" to the port or if they are "ship time" and if ship time, what time zone will that be? Will the ship stay on Seattle time?

 

Thanks in advance,

Deb

[Toyz711]

they warn you in your 1st night daily (left in your room each night). the time is alaska time;) . the ship changes for the time zone, an hour behind pacific time.

[Don Haynes]

The Alaskan panhandle is Alaska time, one hour behind Pacific time. The ship will do a time change so the ship's time is the same which will be posted in the Freesytle daily and on a card left by the room stewards the night of the change.

[NormanW]

Eliminated. The scientific community doesn't use them and everything works smooth. DST is a joke and implementing an early/late shift did NOTHING but cost the IT industry $6B U.S. and saved no energy. If anything it made the cost of petrol creep higher due to increased demand as civilians drove longer in evenings with the "extra" daylight. :rolleyes:

 

Getting back to the topic, yes if everyone used GMT "what time is it?" would be redundant unless people forget to don a wrist watch. Good sailors never take them off. ;)

 

Cheers,

 

Norman

[brunolvr]

I'll be sailing on the Norwegian Pearl to Alaska May 13, 2007. Our group is wondering if the arrival/departure times listed on our itinerary are "local" to the port or if they are "ship time" and if ship time, what time zone will that be? Will the ship stay on Seattle time?

 

Thanks in advance,

Deb

The ship will change to local time so they both will be the same.

 

Last year we left Seattle on Sunday and on Monday night we were reminded to "turn your clocks back 1 hour before retiring tonight (Monday)". So Tuesday through Friday we were on Alaska time.

 

We spent Friday in Ketchikan and in the daily we were once again reminded "please advance your clock 1 hour before retiring tonight (Friday)".

 

I believe someone said if you drive into the Yukon (when in Skagway), there is a time difference in Canada. But maybe someone else can confirm that.

[DebC85]

Thanks everyone for the insight! :-)

[garycarla]

Wow...some people make this confusing.

 

Ship time will match port time. Does not matter if it is daylight saving, standard, pacific or gmt.

 

Gee whiz.

[DebC85]

garycarla -

 

Not always!! When I took a cruise on Carnival 9/2005, the ship time stayed on Miami time and did not change to reflect the local port times.