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Exactly Hawaiian Time II Traditional Cache

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Dogliest: Cache and its hiding spot were wiped out by road construction installing a new roundabout intersection. Look for a new cache nearby in a short while.

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Hidden : 12/18/2014
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is meant to be a fun hunt and available in the winter. The purpose of the cache is to call attention to the real-life daily meaning of those GPS coordinate numbers. Please be careful to avoid damaging the landscaping as none of it needs to be disturbed to find the cache.
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This cache is about 2000 feet east of the 150 00.000 degrees longitude line.  Under the global time zone system, it should be high noon at that exact longitude exactly 10 hours after high noon in Greenwich Observatory in England.  But since the “Alaska Time Zone” is only 9 hours behind Greenwich, the daylight in Anchorage is actually an hour late. Anchorage clocks should theoretically be on “Hawaii Time”, an hour later. The ideal longitude for "Alaska Time", the 135 00.000 line, runs very near Juneau. 

Before 1983, Alaska had four different time zones. Juneau and SE Alaska followed Pacific Time. Anchorage and Fairbanks followed the longitudinally appropriate time "Yukon Time" two hours behind Pacific Time. Western Alaska followed "Bering Sea Time" an hour behind that.

Today Alaska is mostly one time zone, but it has three official and one unofficial time zone. Almost the entire state follows Alaska Time, one hour behind Pacific Time. The far western Aleutian Islands follow Hawaii-Aleutian Time, one hour behind Alaska Time. The Indian Reservation and island of Metlakatla near Ketchikan follows Pacific Time. Unofficially, the people and businesses in the town of Hyder follow Canadian British Columbian time along with its international neighbor Stewart, British Columbia.

As a practical matter, the hours of daylight vary so much from winter to summer in Alaska that the time zone makes little difference, except maybe in the middle of winter.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fcehpr gerrf ner cnvashy naq abg sha gb uhag. Ab arrq gb uhag ba gur ynaqfpncr va sebag bs gur srapr rvgure.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)