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Alaskan Politicians Hope To Abolish Daylight Saving Time

KUOW | By Marcie Sillman,
Amina Al-Sadi
Published March 6, 2015 at 1:59 PM AKST
A shot of Barrow, Alaska at midnight with the sun still visible. Alaska currently has one time zone for the mainland and another for the Aleutian Islands.
Flickr Photo/Andrei Taranchenko (CC-BY-NC-ND)
A shot of Barrow, Alaska at midnight with the sun still visible. Alaska currently has one time zone for the mainland and another for the Aleutian Islands.

Marcie Sillman talks to Alexandra Guiterrez of Alaska Public Media about the Alaska state Senate's bill that would abolish daylight saving time and open up a discussion to divide Alaska into multiple time zones.
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