Wondering if there is a common name for the "Dis-contiguous" states of Alaska and Hawaii.
If not, what would be a good single word label to describe these two states, especially in context of dividing the country up into time zones.
Context: this is for a web application that presents data based on various filters. One of these filters is time zone. I want to use Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern, and some other word that encompasses both Alaska and Hawaii, even though they are really in two different time zones.
Best Answer
"Alaska & Hawaii" is short, accurate, and precise. It's 3 words, but only 15 characters (depending on how you choose to spell Hawaii/Hawai'i/Hawaiʻi.