[tz] Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time

[Paul Eggert]

On 04/17/2015 01:05 PM, Matt Johnson wrote:
> HAST/HADT are in the CLDR also:

I expect CLDR got those abbreviations from us, so they're not really an 
independent source.

It seemed to me that independent sources seem to prefer HST/HDT whereas 
sources derived from the tz database of course prefer HAST/HADT as that 
is what we are using.  This isn't a good situation: the tz database 
should reflect common usage, not set it.

Although the GPO style manual was the tipping point for me, plenty of 
other sources outside tz's orbit use HST/HDT, or call it "Hawaii time" 
even though it's in the Aleutians.  It's not just the Wikipedia page for 
Adak.  See, for example:

http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/localtime.cfm
http://www.orneveien.org/adak/
http://www.statoids.com/tus.html
http://alaska.hometownlocator.com/ak/aleutians-west-ca/adak.cfm