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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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!!!
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.
The article I read said the DST would hinge on Indiana moving to the central time zone.
When I run for governor of Georgia, I will run on one issue. Split the diffence and then no more time changes ever. This spring, we should spring forward 1/2 hour and never spring forward or fall back again.
Daylight savings time is practiced in most of the United States and most countries in temperate climates that have long summer days and short winter days. Even Brazil has DST. But of course this is proof that Indiana is sane and everyone else is crazy. Just like Generalissimo Roberto Knighto was considered nuts everywhere but Bloomington until they finally had to run him out of town before someone got choked to death.
At least your river towns are filthy rich from Casino gambling. That's something, I guess.