Journal and Courier Online – Letters to the Editor One Monon resident with a long memory weighed in on the Daylight Saving Time debate in a Journal & Courier letter to the editor:
Let’s revisit state’s history of time zones
Our governor continues to tell us what a great help to our economy going on daylight-saving time will be, with promises to detail the reasons.
The most interesting part is that it doesn’t matter to him whether it is Central or Eastern, just so we change the time. He was leaning toward Central time, now it seems Eastern. I would like to remind everyone that we have “been there and done that.”
At 82, I remember Central time when the line was at the Indiana/-Ohio border. We had a referendum where “we the people” voted against daylight-saving time (after trying it for awhile). The next thing I knew we were on Eastern time. And then it was daylight-saving, which was actually “double fast,” and now we are on Eastern time straight — what a relief.
I do not believe our legislature should be pushed to act in haste, nor should Congress become involved until our time history is studied.
It should be quite interesting for everyone to see it laid out as to how we arrived at the present time — perhaps we’ll even see the reasons some didn’t work.
Margery Owens, Monon
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