Originally Posted by
N830MH
Actually, it was 3:30pm your time, not 2pm. 2pm is MST.
It was 3:35 CDT, 2:35 CST, 2:35 MDT, 1:35 MST.
It seems more plausible that Southwest would announce a press conference in CDT, since that's where Dallas is and everybody in the Central time zone uses Daylight time.
If they announced it as HST, well that would be purposely releasing the cat from the bag...