“You know, the real solution is to change the axial tilt of the earth, and then that solves everyone’s problem,” Brettschneider said.The more significant impact in Alaska of making daylight saving time permanent would be to spare everyone the ritual of resetting the clocks twice a year.
Amanda Moser hates that ritual. She’s the executive director of the Anchorage Downtown Partnership, but years ago she worked as a waitress. She said she saw the ugly side of fall-back Sunday at drinking establishments. “It is very good that bars close. People do need to go home and stop drinking,” she said. “But on that day, you get an extra hour at the bar. It’s dangerous.”suggesting that clock-shifting is associated with more heart attacks, strokes and other ills. She’d like to be done with it.
The bill that passed the Senate would have us spring forward one last time, next year, and then hold.The U.S. Senate just unanimously passed a bill making daylight savings time permanent, passing the bill to the House.— Sen. Lisa Murkowski Whether the Senate-passed bill will become law isn’t clear. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the publication “The Hill” that she likes the idea, but she didn’t commit to bringing the bill up for a vote in the House.