On 17 April 2015 at 11:48, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

The America/Adak Zone data include this change, but the Pacific/Honolulu
Zone data do not.

Sorry, I don't understand what the phrase "this change" refers to, but I suppose you're thinking that Hawaii's time zone abbreviation should change?

Yeah, although I have seen HAST used to refer to time in Hawaiʻi, I've seen HST much more commonly.

On 17 April 2015 at 12:08, Matt Johnson <mj1856@hotmail.com> wrote:

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.

By the same token, it's reasonable that people in the Aleutian Islands wouldn't associate themselves with Hawaiʻi! (But, alas, AST/ADT is already taken on the other side of the continent.)

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Tim Parenti