[hoosierboy]

We here in Indiana don't have daylight savings time. We are so screwed up we are too good to change our clocks. Every year in the state house they argue back and forth whether to have it or not. You have several lobbyist groups like the farm bureau, the cinema people, the golf course people, big industry. It will surely pop up when our general assembly goes back into session this fall.

[Willie Green]

We here in Indiana don't have daylight savings time.

For some reason, your farmers believed that your clocks should remain synchronized with their cows' milking schedule.
I like to think Indianans are better educated than that now.
But I have come to believe that you do it now just to aggravate the rest of us.
That's OK. In a way, it's one of the more visible vestiges of a time when we had 10th Amendment state's rights.
Despite the inconvenience, I urge you to continue to hold out, as a matter of principle.

[Koblenz]

You have several lobbyist groups like the farm bureau, the cinema people, the golf course people, big industry. It will surely pop up when our general assembly goes back into session this fall.

I can understand why the golf course people would want DST: it would get light later, resulting in people able to play golf after work. And the opposite for cinema. Industry has a variety of reasons, one of which is proximity to Chicago and integration with their time. But why does the farm industry care? DST doesn't alter the number of daylight hours, it just changes when they happen! I remember hearing a few years ago about some lady in Indiana who wrote to her state rep asking for DST because her roses would get more light...

[BenLurkin]

Daylight Saving Time is an idiotic idea. There is no rational reason to force people to change their clocks (mechanical, electrical and biological) twice a year.

Pick one time or the other and leave it, or split the difference (1/2) hour and be done with it.

[Freeper john]

I think that the reason that Indiana doesn't change their time is the inability of hoosiers to remember whether to set their clocks forward or backwards. Especially forward, they do pretty good at "backward".