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Re: Indiana adopts Daylight Saving Time!
From: Bill B
Date: 2005 Apr 29, 18:48 -0500
From: Bill B
Date: 2005 Apr 29, 18:48 -0500
> Frank wrote > It might not seem like a weighty issue, but it's a big deal in the state of > Indiana. Even if it doesn't seem that important, this is still probably the > biggest change in official time zone law in the US since the start of DST was > shifted back two weeks in 1987. Ah yes, how I love it. Sad fact is most Hoosiers did not (and probably still do not) realize Indiana is solidly in the Central time zone. Which means here in West Lafayette, mean LAN is 12:48 pm. So we are getting 48 minutes of "daylight savings" all year. With DST, 1 hr 48 minutes. When they started debating the issue the smarter politicians (and that may be an oxymoron) discovered we were and should be on Central time. If so, Central DST will gain us nothing during DST, and it will get dark an hour earlier when on standard time. The hoot here is that Bush's "My Man Mitch," Governor Daniels, pushed DST through based on approx. 5% energy savings because lights will be on less. If we go to Central with DST, what changes? Most of us will still get up in the dark and arrive home in the dark during the winter months. And we still have that nasty side effects of livestock being upset and the extra daylight burning lawns, which will require more watering, which will siphon off water needed to fill the lakes that power the hydroelectric dams ;-) Bill