An Indy Star article about Daylight Saving Time (DST) entitled Is it really costing Indiana businesses?: The jist is that pro-DST business types who were asked couldn’t offer any numbers or say that Indiana would have any more jobs if it went onto DST, but they’re “just sure” it’s costing Indiana jobs.
I think it’s just an annoyance to corporation doing business nationally. But, they figure it out for Central Time, Mountain Time, Eastern Time, and Western Time, there’s no reason they can’t figure it out for Hoosier Standard Time. It’s simply not that difficult. But, the message is that Indiana is not important enough to them to waste an extra half-second of thought on. If we were a booming economy, businesses would be tripping all over themselves to bow and scrape to our little time oddity. That they are trying to change our time-keeping system is a sign of disrespect. If we accommodate them, we’re not going to have any more jobs. We will just have scrapped a time system that makes sense for our geographic area, put our kids out in the dark to wait for school buses, so that a middle-manager somewhere doesn’t have to expend an extra half-second’s worth of thought on arranging his conference call. No thanks.
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