The Indy Star is reporting Daylight Saving Time clears big hurdle. The House Committee on Public Policy & Veterans Affairs stripped a Senate Bill that would have raised speed limits from 65 to 70 and inserted legislation that would require Indiana to switch to Eastern Daylight Time between April and October (starting June 5 this year for some reason) unless it was a part of the state that is currently in the Central Time Zone.
Good news: you’ll be on the same time as Ohio. Bad news: it’ll take you an hour longer to get there.
The legislature’s website seems to be slow updating today so I haven’t been able to look at the legislation. I wonder if anyone has done a study asking how much it’s going to cost Indiana businesses to revamp all of their timekeeping systems by June 5. (Given that proponents of DST cite the supposedly prohibitive costs of setting up for Hoosier Standard Time if they want to do business in the state.)
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