By the Associated Press
3/30/2006
Indiana's bars and restaurants can change their clocks an hour after the official start of statewide daylight-saving time this weekend, Gov. Mitch Daniels said Thursday.
Daniels said the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission will not enforce alcohol license laws until then, and he asked that local law enforcement exercise what a statement from his office called "the same commonsense approach."
Under a state law approved last year, all of Indiana will join 47 other states in observing daylight-saving time beginning at 2 a.m. Sunday. At that time, 2 a.m. will become 3 a.m., the cutoff time for serving alcohol in Indiana.
The change this Sunday effectively would have denied bars, taverns and restaurants an hour of being able to serve alcohol early Sunday. Instead, Daniels said bar and restaurant owners can operate as usual overnight Saturday and remain open for their standard hours.
"Most of us will set our clocks ahead before we go to bed," he said. "They can do it when they're locking up for the night. And by the way, we won't take away the extra hour they'll get when we fall back in October."
Daylight-saving time will last from this Sunday to the last Sunday in October, when clocks will be moved back an hour.
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