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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>It's also worth mentioning that despite sharing the same standard time zone offset of UTC-10, the Aleutian Islands switch to UTC-9 for daylight saving time and Hawaii does not.<div><br></div><div>Also, it's quite reasonable that people in Hawaii would not associate themselves with the Aleutian Islands, as they are separated by more than 2,300 Miles. <br><br><div>> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:48:09 -0700<br>> From: eggert@cs.ucla.edu<br>> To: hankw1@austin.rr.com; tz@iana.org<br>> Subject: Re: [tz] Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time<br>> <br>> Hank W. wrote:<br>> > I happened to notice that the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 49,<br>> > Subtitle A, Part 71, Section 71.12 states "...the Hawaii-Aleutian standard<br>> > time zone, includes the entire State of Hawaii and, in the State of Alaska,<br>> > that part of the Aleutian Islands that is west of 169 degrees 30 minutes<br>> > west longitude."<br>> ><br>> > The America/Adak Zone data include this change, but the Pacific/Honolulu<br>> > Zone data do not.<br>> <br>> Sorry, I don't understand what the phrase "this change" refers to, but I suppose <br>> you're thinking that Hawaii's time zone abbreviation should change? If so, that <br>> federal regulation no doubt comes from 15 U.S. Code §263 <br>> <https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/263>, which designates the time zone <br>> as "Hawaii-Aleutian standard time". Hawaii had already observing this time zone <br>> well before this federal name was introduced in 1983, and popular usage still <br>> seems to prefer "Hawaii Standard Time" and/or "HST" to designate it, even in <br>> government web sites. For example, see:<br>> <br>> http://help.waterdata.usgs.gov/code/tz_query<br>> https://www.fema.gov/disaster/1664/news<br>> http://oimt.hawaii.gov/procurement/<br>> http://labor.hawaii.gov/ui/faq/<br>> <br>> We prefer popular to "official" English-language usage, when it can be <br>> determined, so "HST" seems to be the way to go for Hawaii's time even if the <br>> official federal full name for the time zone includes an "-Aleutian".<br></div></div> </div></body>
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