Thread: Don't Forget - Daylight Saving Time

Indiana to spring forward as one
By Theodore Kim, USA TODAY
Fri Mar 31, 6:50 AM ET

Many Indiana residents will do something this weekend they haven't done in decades: change their clocks.

More than 30 years after most of Indiana decided that it would stay on Eastern Standard Time year round, all Hoosier clocks will follow most of the rest of the nation and spring forward one hour for daylight-saving time.

That will leave Arizona and Hawaii as the only states that do not observe daylight-saving time.

The vast majority of Indiana's 92 counties will switch to Eastern Daylight Time, while a handful of communities in northwest and southwest Indiana will operate on Central Daylight Time.

The historic clock change - an annual ritual elsewhere that officially comes at 2 a.m. the first Sunday in April - has evoked images in Indiana of Y2K revisited: Businesses are prepping for possible computer glitches; TV schedules are being tweaked; T-ball leagues are expanding because of the added evening daylight. Even the start time of the sacred Indianapolis 500 auto race has been pushed back this year (from noon to 1 p.m.) to accommodate the daylight change.

Indiana towns bordering other states, meanwhile, are celebrating the end of a haze of confusion.

"With the new setup, we're a happy people," said Pete Olson, city manager for Union City, Ind., a community on the Ohio border that for years has observed both Eastern Standard and Daylight times.

Until this weekend, 10 western counties observed Central Standard Time in the winter and Central Daylight in the summer; five in the southeast observed Eastern Standard in winter and Eastern Daylight in summer; and the other 77 counties were on Eastern Standard but never observed daylight saving.

But that arrangement, most of which was adopted in 1971 as a compromise between Hoosiers who wanted to be in the Central Time Zone and those who wanted to be in the Eastern Time Zone, has stirred controversy.

Prodded by Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels and business leaders, who said the change would help end confusion that has hurt economic growth, the General Assembly approved the new scheme last year after bitter debate.

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Did you know there are websites for this :

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/daylight1.html

http://www.energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html

When we change our clocks

Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of April. Time reverts to standard time at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday of October. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.

When we change our clocks

Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of April. Time reverts to standard time at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday of October. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.

That's odd. I wasn't even aware there were people that didn't observe the changing of times. Learn something new every day. LOL Now I just hope I remember to reset my clock because I have somewhere to go on Sunday.

I love daylight savings time in spring. Means summer is on its way and no more snow!!

I also like to set the clocks forward because I work 12 hour night shifts, weekends only. Get paid for 12 hours, work 11. Cheap thrill, sometimes its the small things that make my day.

yup

Thanks for the reminder.

yep, first time we've had to move our clocks. pees me off too. Just leave well enough alone already. dark at 9 pm is fine with me...don't need any daylight til 10 pm, lord I'll never get to sleep! grrr!! (oh yeah..I'm in Indiana)

Originally Posted by Shancopp

yep, first time we've had to move our clocks. pees me off too. Just leave well enough alone already. dark at 9 pm is fine with me...don't need any daylight til 10 pm, lord I'll never get to sleep! grrr!! (oh yeah..I'm in Indiana)

yeap, another hoosier here too...this is the first time I have ever had to change the clock..it sure seems weird!! I still say it should have stayed the same way it always has been...

We don't have DST in Hawaii.