But it does *not* change section 263. This means that the official US names of the time zones change, which is really stupid. Since Hawaii, Samoa, and Guam do not use daylight time, Hawaii will now be in Alaska standard time, Samoa in Hawaii-Aleutian standard time, and Guam in a time zone with no name.
Not necessarily. Hawaii-Aleutian standard time will become UTC-9. I don't know what legislation says what time is used in Hawaii, but if it uses that name then time in Hawaii will jump forward one hour on the date the law comes into effect.
Hawaii has not observed daylight saving time since war time ended in 1945 and has been at UTC-10 since they moved from UTC-10:30 in 1947. I am quite sure they have no interest in changing their time zone now, and certainly not a hour in the wrong direction. Solar time in Honolulu is about UTC-10:40. Given the lack of debate when the Senate passed this bill, I would be surprised if any of the senators understood what they did. Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly