Posted on 04/29/2005 5:24:20 AM PDT by Military family member
Has Bush indicated whether or not he's in favor of the expansion of DST in the energy bill?
That I haven't heard. How would it work?
I'd be ticked if I lived in Indiana. Daylight savings time sucks.
Living outside of DST when everyone else is on it sucks.
Basically the proposal is to expand DST by two months by starting in March and ending in November.
Gonna need a patch to a bunch of software ;)
And another bit of texture in our national character is lost in the pursuit of the Holy Grail of bland conformity.
If Washington DC demanded that all clocks run backward on Fridays, half the states would immediately work on rewiring clock motors without giving it a second thought.
I still say, for the record, that Indiana turn its clocks ahead 25 hours instead of 1 hour, then we'll be a day ahead of the world
I work for a transportation company that makes two runs from Iowa to Indy every day. The time differences cause a lot of confusion and missed connections. Of course just about the time everyone gets used to it, it changes.
I want to see those laws enforced,
Why in the world are we in the same time zone as NY, Boston, Miami, and DC, rather than Chicago?
This is from the state that boasts the university that gave us both B.F. Skinner and lab rat mazes and the Kinsey report.
Go figure
Welcome to the party, Hoosiers!
My wife's originally from Richmond, IN - she liked not having to worry about DST while she was there.
Under the proposal, Daylight Savings Time would be in effect for more than half the year, and would become the new "normal". Maybe we can call Wintertime "Daylight Wastings Time" or something...
I live in Terre Haute, right on the boarder and 1/3 of my staff and my customes live in Illinois. It's going to make a lot of work for me.
But it will bring us new business. It will just flood into the state now. Businesses that have no trouble conducting business with other business in Europe or Asia but can't get the time in Indiana.
Sounds like half the state wants to be on Illinois time and the other half on Ohio, eastern time.
The state seems rather split 50/50.
This may not be a problem elsewhere where time zone borders are much less populated. Much of the central to mountain time zone split is sparsly populated. Same from mountain to pacific. But eastern to central is most populated in Indiana.
ie daylight vs standard is more of a central vs eastern change, that toggles in April and October.
I will be ticked if they make us change to Chicago time. We are just as economically tied to Cincinnati and New York as we are Chicago--even more so in my case. I don't want it to be daylight at 4:00 am and dark at 4:00 pm when the kids walk home from school. It's next to impossible to get anything done outside in the evening after work. When I was a kid we could play outside until late in the evening. If it gets dark even earlier, the kids will have even less outside time. It's no wonder they are all couch potatoes. They can't play out after dark.
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