The most objectionable part of Daylight Saving Time is coming this weekend. We’ll shift our clocks an hour, leading to darker mornings. It was starting to get light at a reasonable time in the morning, and now we’ll have to wait until about 7:40 for it to start to get light out.
So, let’s recap – DST doesn’t actually save any energy and it has done jack for our economy. What was the point of the exercise again?
To demonstrate leadership & decidin’ skills – of course. ;>
And just when I finally got late afternoon light back naturally, I get a bonus hour now.
so that we can be on the same time zone as Maine, of course! After all, Portland is much more important and relevant than to Hoosiers than, say Chicago…
But I like it.
Really…I do.
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Don’t forget the Darwinian effect on school children waiting for the bus in the dark – the alert ones with good reflexes are more likely to pass on their genes to succeeding generations.
So, it’s all good, right?
This is always by far the most entertaining biannual bitchfest about probably the most innocuous event in a Hoosiers’ daily life.
It astounds me how much difficulty everyone has on BOTH sides of this life altering issue, adjusting to an hour ahead or behind or earlier darkness or later light.
I think I’ve mentioned many times before, I personally don’t care if we follow DST, EDT, ET the extra terrestrial or The Rev Moons sundial, somebody please just throw a frickin’ dart and make a decision and stick with it. I’ll adjust accordingly and my life will go on, believe me.
Hey, I’m getting better. I mostly confine my bitching to right near the actual time change when my mornings get screwed up and putting the kids to bed gets interesting.
The moving of the hours of the clock are plain silly to me.
Really the whole notion of time zones is an antiquated concept anyway. Unforuntately people are so used to the current system, that they can’t imagine a system where everyone was on the same time and businesses adjusted their hours for the daylight in their area. You try to explain it to someone and they’re convinced that they’ll end up going to work at 1 a.m.
SO we can not be bouncing around in time like some ADD addled hyperactive 4 year old compared to the states around us, making trade with and doing business between states annoying and at times difficult twice a year.
As for the bus excuse, that makes sense. All those parents in Michigan must freaking HATE their kids and want them to die. Obviously. Kentucky, too.
I don’t give a shit about DST, I just want Indiana to have our time match everyone else so that when I’m trying to travel, if talk to family out of state, or do business out of state I don’t have to keep reminding people that *sometimes* Indiana does this, and *sometimes* Indiana does that.
The fight should be with the national government and getting rid of DST altogether.
But hey, we’re Hoosiers. We’re supposed to be stubborn about pointless bullshit like “I don’t wanna mess with mah clocks!!!”
Decaf anyone?
This is the time I like best-because it resembles the EST I grew up on.
Of course I’m also on the Central time part of Indiana-and am looking forward to getting my evening light back. And the sun will rise tomorrow at a little after 7-well before my kids get on the bus;-)
This has it exactly backward. Indiana did precisely the same thing all day, every day. Constant as the north star. The other states sometimes did this and sometimes did that.
Some people are complete time dunces ( like my sister).She lives in Illinois and is flying out of Indianapolis in a couple weeks,and she asked me on the phone just yesterday ‘what’s going to happen when we change time?’ I said, ‘nothing’…Indianapolis will always be an hour later than Illinois.. tomorrow just like it is today,and will always be..’
I think only people who live outside of Indiana can fully appreciate the predictability of what time it is in Indiana.
Now if someone crossing into Indiana is confused, we can just say ‘nothing ever changes’,and after a couple more years no one will ever even have to ask.
Several people showed up late to work today, including the keyed employee who lets everyone else in. I’m afraid the lost productivity probably ate up all the savings we got from springing forward. Dang it!
This comment isn’t aimed at anyone in particular, but is a response to the “we have to be on the be on DST just like everyone else” argument that turns up like a bad penny every time DST is discussed. Not everyone is on DST. Even if that were true, if you are involved in interstate or international commerce and cannot figure out that people in other parts of the country and world just might be in different time zones than you are, I have to wonder about the viability of your business.
Errors in post above notwithstanding, I never had any problem figuring out what time it was in other parts of the world back in the day when most of Indiana was on EST year round. Just a few months ago, someone from Indianapolis came to Richmond for the day and asked me, “What time is it here?” Evidently, she did not know that Richmond and Indianapolis are in the same time zone. Of course, like many people from Indy, she may not have realized that Richmond is in the same state as Indianapolis. ;-)
Pila-It’s because the dunces didn’t put the whole state on central time when they had the chance-and then they moved some counties around that had always been in one zone to another-and….well, the stupid just makes my head swim!!!!!
My overview of the DST debate in Indiana which I posted about three years ago.
Most pertinent to the recent comments:
Everyone keeps forgetting the incredible economic benefits.
The skillion dollars I personally get from DST is really coming in handy! [/sarc]
Yeah, mee too! I thought about giving an extra billion I made to Citigroup;-)
Extra billion, Reverend? Guess those NPO jobs are paying a bit better now days! ;)
Yeah, and it’s all thanks to the whole state going DST!
Well, I have heard your good Lord does work in mysterious ways!
I want some of that DST economic boom windfall great job that wasn’t here a few years ago gazillion dollars too! ;-)
@ The Rev. AJB and Doug: I think that there is a certain sort of person from Indianapolis (not all people from there, but certainly most of the Indy people I know) who wouldn’t know what time it is outside Indianapolis no matter what the DST situation would happen to be in Indiana. Those folks are just in a bubble, completely unaware that there is a whole state, a whole country, and a whole world outside of Marion County.