Time in Hawaii at 8:00 will air at 5:00. The zone for Hawaii as given by zone.tab of the IANA time zone database. Columns marked * are from the zone.tab. Time in Hawaii Hawaii is located in the Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zone and does not observe daylight saving time. Most cable providers in Hawaii carry the west coast feed of television networks, though since Hawaii doesn't use daylight saving time, all programs air three hours earlier than what they were advertised as for a majority of the year. Even when the rest of the country is on standard time, programs air two hours earlier.
Prime Time Access Rule hour of prime time (7:00–8:00 p.m. Eastern Time and Pacific Time, 6:00–7:00 p.m. Central, Mountain, Alaska and Hawaii–Aleutian Time) as the "prime access hour". By the early 1980s, the PTAR had introduced a policy amendment prohibiting stations in the 50 television markets with the highest prime time viewership from broadcasting more than three hours of network programming during the four-hour "prime time" block. Stations had to find original programming to fill during the "prime time" fraction. However, the rule exempted certain types of programming, such as overruns of live sports events, special news, documentary and children's programming, and certain sports