Daniels to push for Daylight Saving Time in Indiana

11/05/04 | Matthew Tully and Michele McNeil

[megatherium]

That's the situation we're in, across the river from Louisville, KY. Floyd and Clark counties stay on Louisville time, as does Indiana University Southeast. But if you're a student who lives and works in Seymour, an hour north of IUS, you're always on EST. So to get to an 8 am course at IUS, you have to get up at 5 am.

The arguments for staying on EST all the time make sense, I suppose, but I believe the virtue of everyone always staying on the same time is far more important. So I think the whole country should toss daylight savings time. Failing that, I support Indiana going to daylight savings time.

[BenLurkin]

This guy is a Republican? He is on the wrong side of this issue BIG TIME.

DST is something a democrat would favor. It is phony solution to a non-existant problem and a cynical imposition of government power on the citizenry.

[mysterio]

And I thought the only benefit was that Joe Sixpak could have an extra hour to throw the ball at his rugrat before dangerous, evil darkness descends, thereby ending any chance of fun in the summer. 400 billion dollars? Would we get a tax rebate for that if we inconvenience ourselves and embrace DST?

[agsloss]

I have often wondered what the reason was for this, and assumed someone was making a lot of money off of it.

[Always Right]

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?

Some counties around chicago and evansville are on Central Daylight Savings Times. Most of the state is on Eastern Time with no daylight savings. And some around Cincinatti are on Eastern time with daylight savings. Most of the state never changes their clocks, but the others do.

[BenLurkin]

Or split the difference. Move the clocks forward by 30 minutes next Spring and leave them there.

[EEDUDE]

"Combined with global warming, the extra hour of sunshine will burn the crops."

Not only that, it also upsets the livestock.

[mysterio]

I would go for that. Also, I would like them just for today to move the clocks right now to 5 PM so I can get off work. I promise to spend money if they do!

[Bikers4Bush]

Look at it this way RR. What would it be like if we never rolled the clocks back in the fall and just left it that way all year.

[TheBattman]

Exactly what I was thinking - why would anyone be so thrilled to force "daylight savings time" on anyone?

We have kicked the Daylight Savings Time issue around here on FR at least twice that I can remember. And I have YET to hear a convincing reason to continue using this idiotic time change. Exactly how does this lame-brained idiot think that using it will save money?

[RockinRight]

What state do you live in?

[Andonius_99]

I've had a solution for a while now that should satisfy everyone.

Right now, the majority of the states have their clocks rolled back, right??? So, this Sunday, everyone on this system should roll your clocks forward by 30 minutes.

The rest who aren't on this system should roll all theirs back by 30 minutes. This should solve all the problems!!!

[RockinRight]

Then sunrise wouldn't be till almost 9:00. It would be dark at rush hour.

[DuoDamsel]

Keep the time strait in Indiana is easy for me. In the spring Rush Limbaugh comes on at 11:00 am and is over at 2:00 pm. In the fall Rush comes on at 12:00 noon an is over at 3:00 pm. so keep time in the Great state of Indiana is easy. Just listen to Rush an you will always know what time it is

[The Sons of Liberty]

This allows for more evening recreational activities

Sure, I understand that, but in the winter when the sun goes down at 4:00 PM in some parts of the country, there are school kids walking home in the dark. Wouldn't it make more sense to have the extra hour of daylight then? Where I live, the sun stays up till 9:00 PM in the summer. I could be just as happy if it only stayed up to 8:00 PM.

[magnumsgirl]

Indiana - Southwestern area. Only a handful of counties change their clocks, everyone north of us doesn't.

[Walkingfeather]

the economy is making alot of money. Plus if you were in the 70-80's most people went home from work and ate dinner watched the news , then sitcoms. That was it. Now people are out and about especially during daylight savings time. When you sit in front of the tv you are not producing anything, ( ideas, relationships, income) now how many people are watching the news? It is not all related to that but if people are not at home they usually are not watching TV. It was a great easy and cheap way of shifting things in the country.

[mysterio]

I tend to believe that DST does absolutely nothing to prevent people from watching TV. Is there a side by side analysis of states that have DST and states that don't and television ratings? TV is dead in the summer anyway. But even if DST prevented TV watching, voter fraud, and cooked me ham and eggs every morning, I still wouldn't support it. It is another statist government imposed solution to a nonissue nonproblem.

[Frapster]

I voted for Mitch and was really disappointed to see him acting so aggressively on DST. I just moved here and love not having to set my clocks forward or backwards.

[Walkingfeather]

I can see coming from a libertarian view point ( which you should state as the basis of your arguement ) that DST is just another thorn in your side. However you made the case for my argument with this quote...."TV is dead in the summer anyway"

So the question for you is.... Why is tv dead in the summer anyway? Would it be because the days are longer and that allows people to be outside spending money and not watching TV?