It’s truly amazing to me how much play Indiana’s decision to uniformly apply Daylight Savings Time has received. The governor ran on a promise to join the rest of the country (except for those wacky Arizonans, of course). Sploid says Indiana To Finally Succumb To Daylight Savings Time Scam. Outside the Beltway says Indiana Succumbs to Daylight Savings Time. What’s with “succumb”? Are the Hoosiers finally giving into the great siege machines of the Clock Changers?
I understand where Indiana’s coming from, situated as it is straddling two time zones, with significant population residing near Louisville, KY (EST) and Chicago, IL (CST). I also know from personal experience what a pain it is to the rest of the world to deal with a region that doesn’t play along, having worked on a project involving Arizona a couple of years ago (are they two hours ahead this week or three?). More importantly, given that we are not an agrarian society anymore, and artificial lighting is pretty darn ubiquitous, has the justification for changing the clocks to maximize usable daylight run its course?
April 29th, 2005 at 3:54 pm
There’s no daylight savings time in Arizona because it’s TOO HOT during the day. The sooner it gets dark in the summer, the sooner you can go outside (and most of the time it’s not so bad at night, especially if the bar/restaurant has misters).