Atlantic Standard Time Definition

noun
Standard time in the fourth time zone west of Greenwich, England, reckoned at 60° west and used, for example, in Puerto Rico and the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
American Heritage
A standard time used in the zone which includes Bermuda, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and E Quebec, corresponding to the mean solar time of the 60th meridian west of Greenwich, England: it is four hours behind Greenwich time.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • Atlantic time
pronoun

The time of day in the time zone that encompasses most of the state of Alaska. No its not - the AST encompasses the east coast of Canada - which sits on the Atlantic Ocean , hence the name Atlantic Standard Time.

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