Is it a good idea to use Hawaii as a database timezone?

Because they don't use DST it would be easier to convert开发者_如何学C timezones, no?

Better would be to use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

One state doth not a standard make.

Indiana is split between Central and Eastern time. Some parts of Indiana used to observe daylight savings time, and some parts didn't. Those parts had nothing to do with the time zone. They had to do with proximity to metro areas in adjacent states.

Each county effectively decided which time zone it was going to be in, and whether it was going to observe daylight savings time.

In 2006 all of Indiana started following daylight saving time. But 18 counties are still on Central time, and the rest are on Eastern time.

Man, I love politics. Coordinated Universal Time is your friend.

This is what UTC is for