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