A Senate committee has advanced legislation that would eliminate daylight saving time and allow for consideration of another time zone in Alaska.
Erin Shine from Senator MacKinnon’s office outlined two new provisos…
Shine: “A requirement that the Governor petitions the U.S. Department of Transportation 21 days after the effective date of that section. The second section, section number 3, provides the immediate effective date for section 2 for the petition. The effective date for section 1, which is the elimination of Daylight Saving Time, remains January 1st, 2017.”
Shine’s reference to the U.S. Department of Transportation would ask the agency to consider moving part or all of Alaska to Pacific time.
Most of Alaska is currently on the same time zone, except for the western Aleutians, which are in the same time zone as Hawaii, one hour behind Alaska.
