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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>That's an amazing quote! (from the Politico article)<div><br></div><div>Do they put that in the travel brochures? :)</div><div><br></div><div>Seriously though - is there any good reason to do this?</div><div><br></div><div>HAST/HADT are in the CLDR also:</div><div><a href="http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/27/by_type/timezones.north_america.html#1ee7f3b1459fe557" target="_blank">http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/27/by_type/timezones.north_america.html#1ee7f3b1459fe557</a></div><div><a href="http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/27/by_type/timezones.north_america.html#39b5dd8bc9bd28b2" target="_blank">http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/27/by_type/timezones.north_america.html#39b5dd8bc9bd28b2</a></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div>> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:56:23 -0700<br>> From: eggert@cs.ucla.edu<br>> To: tim@timtimeonline.com; mj1856@hotmail.com<br>> CC: hankw1@austin.rr.com; tz@iana.org<br>> Subject: Re: [tz] Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time<br>> <br>> On 04/17/2015 10:34 AM, Tim Parenti wrote:<br>> > By the same token, it's reasonable that people in the Aleutian Islands <br>> > wouldn't associate themselves with Hawaiʻi!<br>> <br>> There aren't too many people in Adak to ask (2010 census population <br>> 326), which is not too surprising as it is an area affected by “frequent <br>> cyclonic winds with gusts in excess of 100 knots, fog storms, an average <br>> accumulated snowfall of 100 inches, earthquakes, a nearby active <br>> volcano, rain more than 260 days per year, and tsunamis, and in an area <br>> saturated with active bombs and infested with large rats". See: Boliek <br>> B. Reforms may cut broadband to remote areas. Politico 2012-06-12 <br>> <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77350.html>.<br>> <br>> I looked for local sources. The Alaska Dept of Environmental <br>> Conservation uses "Hawaii-Aleutian time zone" with no abbreviation; <br>> e.g., see <br>> <https://dec.alaska.gov/spar/perp/response/sum_fy10/100111201/100111201_index.htm>.<br>> <br>> The city of Adak itself doesn't seem to use any name or abbreviation for <br>> the time zone.<br>> <br>> The English Wikipedia page for Adak gives the abbreviation "HST" for <br>> "Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time"; this was inserted by a bot in 2007 (see <br>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adak,_Alaska&diff=162933653&oldid=159828785>) <br>> and nobody has changed it since then.<br>> <br>> The U.S. Government Government Printing Office Style Manual (2008) says <br>> that the abbreviation for "Hawaii-Aleutian standard time" is "HST" and <br>> similarly "HDT" for daylight time; see p. 234 of <br>> <http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008/pdf/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008.pdf>.<br>> <br>> On the net I find lots of sources using "HAST" and lots using "HST" for <br>> standard time in the Aleutians. Many of the former sources seem to be <br>> influenced by the tz database, and to some extent that doesn't count. <br>> So it sounds like we should switch to "HST", as it's more <br>> official/authentic/whatever. A proposed patch is attached.<br></div></div> </div></body>
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