Posted on 11/05/2004 10:29:10 AM PST by mysterio
Daniels says he'll fight for time change Daylight-saving time would help businesses, governor-elect says.
November 5, 2004
Gov.-elect Mitch Daniels wasted no time jumping into one of the state's most politically treacherous issues, promising Thursday to fight to bring daylight-saving time to Indiana.
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Great! We live in Lake County in the northwest part of the state (Gary) and we've had Daylight time forever. It would be nice if the whole state was on the same time zone. We are 30 minutes from downtown Chicago so it would be real weird if we were on different times! Imagine New Jersey and New York being in different time zones.
I agree. Who cares if we don't spring forward and fall back. I'd rather keep a consistent time year round, then to have to hassle with changing all our clocks back and forth.
Combined with global warming, the extra hour of sunshine will burn the crops.
I think daylight savings time is a conspiracy of the battery industry, since they tell us to change the batteries in our smoke detectors when you change your clocks.
In states that do have it, there is a sharply increased rate of accidents on change days due to the hour shift in peoples' sleeping schedules. People die. Some of those people are children. Therefore, I think we must tell Mitch Daniels that we must avoid DST so that we can protect our children. That seems to work well when one wants to manipulate a politician or a large segment of the population.
I believe that the accident rate following the time changes is much higher.
Try as they may, there are still only 24 hrs in a day. I'm glad too, because if the day were longer, my employer would feel that they automatically had the rights to any additional time.
If everyone else were jumping off a cliff, would you do so too?
I don't know if that's so bad. Take where I live, Akron, OH as an example. We have daylight savings time. In December, sunrise is at 7:55 AM and sunset at 4:55. In June, with Daylight Savings Time, it is sunrise 5:55 and sunset 9:00, approximately. Without, the sun would be up at 4:55 and set at 8, wasting an hour of daylight when nobody is awake.
time can change me, but I can't change time
Yes, but isn't Chicago on Central time? Changing to that time would mean that it gets dark at 4:30 PM in the winter. That's an hour before most of us get off work. How does your current system work? Do you have DST for part of the year and Eastern the rest of the year? Or are you already on Central?
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I think DST is a good thing. Why do you hate it? I'd much rather have the light in the evening than the morning. In the winter, we fall back so that it's light when we get up.
Daylight savings time sucks. And I say that as someone living under it.
boy are you so wrong. Do you know the economic and social impact of just moving daylight savings time up further into april has had on this country? I think the figures were something like a 400 billion dollar economic gain. Why? Because people go out after work and feel like they can do more before dark. What do they do>? SPEND MONEY! You know what they arent doing? Sitting on their ass watching TV. Thus not having their minds turned to mush by stupid hollywood sitcomes and spending more time with their families.
If you do an analysis of neilson ratings after daylight savings time I think you would change your mind. I wish in the west we would go 2 hours back in the winter.
I'd prefer DST year-round.
I would love to see the entire state in the same time zone. When the clocks in my city change, about half of our workforce live in another time zone, though they only live a few counties away.
We only have THREE distinct time zones in Indiana, I don't see what the problem is. There are like 5 counties on EST-DST, about 78 counties EST without DST, and 8 counties with CST-DST. I really don't care one way or the other. The only thing that would make it easier if you used Daylight Savings Time, it makes it easier to remember that you are always on the same time as New York and always three hours ahead of California. Right now you have to think about what time of the year it is to figure out what time it is everywhere else.
I hate it because it is good for nothing. It is forcing the entire state to change their clocks because some people can't just go into work an hour earlier. It is the ultimate bit of stupidity. With or without DST, noon is still noon. Whether we call it 12:00 or 11:00 is irrelevent. You are not gaining anything. Wouldn't it be much easier for the people who want more time in the evening to talk to their employers about coming in early than to force all of the rest of us who don't necessarily want that to have to put up with it forver? It is a statist solution to a problem that isn't even a problem. The remedy is worse than the disease.
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