Posted on 04/29/2005 8:17:19 AM PDT by 4thygipper
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Indiana to observe daylight-saving time - effective April 2, 2006.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Were they the last holdout, or is there another region in America that keeps to standard time?
Arizona.
...Thousands of Indianans with auto-setting atomic clocks breathe a sigh of relief
...Thousands of Indianans with auto-setting atomic clocks (AND COMPUTERS) breathe a sigh of relief
Indiana was really never a hold out, because they were decided region by region. AZ has been the last true holdout for a long time, and we're staying that way. The state with the most sunny days knows you don't need to save daylight.
Hawaii.
Arizona does not change to D.S.T. What is the purpose of daylight savings time today?
This will make a lot of people happy here in the Cincinnati area. Many live in Indiana but work in Ohio.
I am a Hoosier.
I don't care about time change. But this is going to get fun when we start to debate whether we should be on the same time as Cincinnati and Loiusville or Chicago. He He.
The reason stated above is why counties got to pick what time zone they were in. Because the local counties remained reasonable about who stayed on what time, most hoosiers never cared one way or another. Whoopie on the vote. However, This ain't over yet. Before it is, I have money on several counties still being in different time zones within the state.
Stay Tuned.
But Indiana didn't say know across the board, some counties said yes, which is really why nobody knew what time it was in Indiana because during DST there was no one answer, honestly Indiana picked the worst possible answer on the question of DST. Looks like Hawaii still has a brain and doesn't do DST either, AZ doesn't stand alone.
They teached me to spell real good to in Indiana.
In Indiana, wasn't it just the burbs around Chicago that were on CST?
Indianans?????
What in hayseed tarnations is an Indianan?
What in hayseed tarnations is a HOOSIER???????.........
"In Indiana, wasn't it just the burbs around Chicago that were on CST?"
This is exactly correct. Suburb counties around Cinci honored the time change. Suburbs around Chi-town honored their time change.
Guess what. Cinci and Chi-town are in different time zones.
I don't remember the actual list. I do remember that if you stopped to think about it things mostly made sense. But I haven't been in a situation where I worry about the time in Indiana for a while so I've forgotten.
"What in hayseed tarnations is a HOOSIER???????........."
Hoosier: A citizen resident of the state of Indiana.
What does Hoosier mean? ...We're still working on that. I'll get back to you.
"What in hayseed tarnations is a HOOSIER???????........."
Hoosier: A citizen resident of the state of Indiana.
What does Hoosier mean? ...We're still working on that. I'll get back to you.
Likewise the Louisville 'burbs. [shrug]
I grew up in the Chicago 'burbs 'round Chicago, with friends, relatives and otherwise elsewhere in the state. You just dealt with it. It was no real sweat.
Who's your daddy?.........
Sign them up for a Profiles in Courage award.
Didn't Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld refuse to go on Daylight Savings Time?
What's a Hoosier? - Courtesy IU Alumni Association
"In the beginning was the word," begins Howard H. Peckham's Indiana: A Bicentennial History. "And the word was Hoosier."As Peckham states -- and most Hoosier historians seem to agree -- the historical explanations are "more ingenious than real."
Still, the many theories are fascinating in their diversity. Take the one that has a contractor in 1825 named either Samuel Hoosier or Hoosher. His workers, who helped build a canal on the Ohio River, were predominantly from Indiana. They were called "Hoo sier's men" or "Hoosiers."
A more colorful tale has the word deriving from the phrase fearful early settlers called out when startled by a knock on their cabin door: "Who's here? -- a call that over time degenerated into Hoosier.
While you're at it, please figure out what a Hoya is also.
This hoosier thinks changing time sucks. I will never vote for Mitch Daniels again. And I own my own business. So don't give me that line about business benifits.
I like DST *`cause the Dims were agin it* . . but I don't understand the politics here, Farm Bureau was also against it.
Anywho, I'm puttin my extra hours in an IRA. How bout you?
Fellow Hoosier
I heard the "Who's there?" explanation from another of your fellow Hoosiers, who said that it was from the early FRENCH trappers and settlers who were afraid of British troops in the area. They tried to pronounce, "Who's there?" in the hopes that they would be left alone, but since they could not pronounce "there" without the "zh" French sound, the British referred to them as Hoosiers........
(benefits) you dummy.
Federal law says that each state must decide as a whole, not as individual regions. It does, however, allow states that border other time zones to adopt that time zone over the state's standard.
Indiana was, indeed, a holdout.
My husband despises the switch to DST and back each year. He could never realize why it had to happen. But last year it hit me that if we didn't change, we'd have sunlight streaming into our windows at about 5 a.m. I'd rather have it at 10 p.m. than 5 a.m.
But we still don't know whether we will be in Eastern or Centeral Time. If we go to Central Time with Daylight Savings, we would have defeated the entire purpose. For those who don't know, Indiana effectively has THREE time zones: EST, EST with Daylight Savings, CST with Daylight Savings Time.
Kind of, but it is possible that Indiana will be put on Central Time.
Check out my tag line..........
"I like DST *`cause the Dims were agin it* . . but I don't understand the politics here, Farm Bureau was also against it.
Anywho, I'm puttin my extra hours in an IRA. How bout you?
Fellow Hoosier"
I have decided that with the extra light in the morning, I intend to mow my lawn before I head off to work.
But the IRA idea sounds swell too.
Check out my tag line..........
Ditto you tag line for me. Hail Hail to Old Purue, all hail to gold and the black.....
Well, I guess if you need a postmark at a certain time, you're in business.
If you think about it from a School standpoint it would be better to be on Central Time. During the Winter months when we get bad weather classes would start an hour later and then be less likely to be delayed or closed with sundrise an hour earlier.
Just a thought since my schoold sidttrict is going and extra 7 days this years due to weather related closings...... It really disrupted our summer plans.
I grew up in Indiana where we had a sane time system. I moved to Arizona and have lived there ever since. We don't screw with our clocks here either. I guess I'm running out of places where I would find it acceptable to live. Stupid is breaking out all over the place. Don't change your clocks, change your habits.
Some parts of Indiana switched. Also the Navajo section of AZ switches but technically they're almost a country.
It doesn't have to happen. I have sunlight streaming in my windows at 5 AM, it's no problem makes it easier to wake up in the morning.
Indeed...
Why? Just change your habits, not your clock.
The northern/Gary area and some southeastern portions of the state unofficially observed DST, but there was no state law to support them. This was because they bordered other metropolitan areas which had DST.
We could have sent in the National Guard and forced them back into the Dark Ages, but we secretly envied them ;)
You shouldn't envy people having to change their clocks twice a year. I've lived in both and definitely DST is the stupider more annoying way to live.
While time zones make sense, Daylight Savings Time is stupid. Are we as humans so dumb as to think this accomplishes anything different than if we went to work an hour earlier/later. It does cost business money however to change twice a year.
I will admit, there is one person I know who is firmly convinced that the change to DST makes the ice on Lake Erie melt faster because there is more daylight! It is amazing such people are allowed to operate a voting machine or a car.
I might just squirrel them away in my SS lockbox. (If I could find the thing.)
Why? Farmers work by the sun, not the time.
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