No clock changes required

I never liked daylight savings or really saw the point, so it was nice to miss out on the time change this year since Hawaii stays on standard time all year. Since there are no neighboring states and we are more than one time zone away in any case it was easy for Hawaii to opt out of federal daylight savings from the start.

Currently sunrise is around 6:45AM and sunset 6:45PM which seems just right as we approach the spring equinox. Here in the tropics the length of a day only varies plus/minus 90 minutes at the solstices so the need to maximize daylight is much less. Plus all the islands are fairly close together in longitude.

As of last weekend now the time difference to mainland is:

• +3 hours to west coast
• +4 hours to mountain time
• +5 hours to central time
• +6 hours to east coast

Sunday morning I enjoyed not "losing an hour" and the sun rising and setting at unfamiliar times.