INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Indiana's governor-elect has his eye firmly on the clock as he prepares to take office, with a plan to clear up "what the heck time it is" in the state.
Gov.-elect Mitch Daniels has endorsed a plan to take half the state into daylight-savings time, the Indianapolis Star reported Tuesday.
Under the plan, most Hoosiers would reset their clocks twice a year with the Eastern Seaboard, while residents in the western corners of the state would keep time with Chicago.
"This issue is a jobs issue," Daniels said.
"It costs us good will, and it costs us business in dealing with other states. The critical matter for putting more Hoosiers to work, attracting more businesses and more dollars, is to end the confusion elsewhere about what the heck time it is in Indiana now."
The Star reported Daniels has worked to downplay the issue, pushing other agenda proposals to address tax credits, schools and child protection. But the plan -- which would not change the state's time zone -- could bring an end to decades of controversy over the issue.
