On 30 October 2015 at 12:03, Ray at the Time Zone Report <ray@timezonereport.com> wrote:

The effective date listed is January 1, 2017. Plenty of time – if this goes through.

Although it'd be far simpler to have the effective date sometime in the summer when they're already on AKDT/PST (UTC –8); no clock change required.

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Tim Parenti