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HRS §1-30

Hawaii uses Hawaiian Standard Time for official deadlines

This section says that whenever a state or county law, rule, or order sets a time for doing something, that time is Hawaiian Standard Time. This applies to government officials and to anyone else in Hawaii. It is a narrow rule about which clock to use.

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The statute, as written — Hawaiian standard time applicable

In all statutes, ordinances, rules, regulations, and orders relating to the time of performance of any act by any state or county officer or agency, whether in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches of the government, or relating to the time within which any rights shall accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not, may or may not, be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the State, that time shall be Hawaiian standard time.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

LawTrove is not legal advice. The summary above is a computer-generated restatement — the authoritative text is the official version linked above.