Jon writes:
I thought I read UTC -6:00, which is what we use in Minnesota...
ABE: As for why, it looks to be the same as Chile, which I believe governs Easter Island.
Google reports the Chilean timezone as -4 and Easter Island as -6.
The PHP DateTimeZone database agrees with Google on the Chilean timezone, but not on the Easter Island timezone, which it reports as -5.
Current Local Time in Easter Island, Chile agrees with PHP, but of course they'd agree, they're both programs.
As Theodoric says, Easter Island's at about the same longitude as western Colorado. Sunrise on Easter Island is around 8 AM these days, about an hour and a half later than New York, but Easter Island is much closer to the equator than western Colorado, where sunrise is nearly 9 AM Easter Island time.
--Percy