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Alaskan Politicians Hope To Abolish Daylight Saving Time

caption: 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.
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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)

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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