Indiana did just fine without it. Then Governor Mitch Daniels absolutely rammed it through with a lot of political gyration. We just “had” to have DST because after we changed, the entire state would be so much better at globalization. Not having DST was supposedly costing us untold fortunes.
Yeah, of course most people, even in this country, still have no idea what time it is in Indiana and the billions promised didn’t materialize. Like Chicago doesn’t do any business because they are an hour behind us??
It’s light until 10 pm here in the summer. DST was put into place to save energy and with all the a/c, I don’t think it does that any more. I could live with being in either time zone, but keep it the same all year long. What is the purpose of falling back for 4 months, especially during the cold, snowy, dreary months?
I hate the time changes, either direction. I have such a hard time sleeping anyway, and then it just makes it harder to adjust again. I wish we could split the difference by 30 minutes and just leave it there.
^^^The trouble I have with this …what about the hour Joe America loses staying up later to watch the end of a football game…or the hour of sleep a parent loses because they wait up for a child to get home…or the hour you lose when you get up extra early to catch a flight…etc.! We lose an hour - or more - from our “regular” schedule ALL THE TIME! During college kids spring break many parents lose an hour of sleep ALL week because they stay up later with their college student home for break.
I’m in the camp that I don’t understand the impact of one hour, one day - how about go to bed an hour earlier for a couple of days. OR is it the dark that is the problem - that I can understand more - the dark for mentally getting up, the dark for kids walking to the bus stop, the dark for driving (though then you have an hour earlier dark at rush hour if you don’t switch!
^Well, the numbers are there, whether you like them or not. That one person can make a decision to alter their schedule when they want to is entirely different from the aggregate of everyone doing so without choosing it.
If the milk truck comes at x am, the cows have to be milked by y am. Try to convince a cow that an extra hour of evening daylight is good for the farmer!
The spring doesn’t effect me that much…but the fall sure does. I am fighting to stay awake for that extra hour. I don’t know why, but I am. It lasts about two weeks. If I give in, then I’m sleeping at 8 and up at 4.
Short term changing schedules, well anyone can handle a day or two. But when it’s everyday, it can be tough.
Thanks for that reference and link! It’s easy to see that we didn’t have the DST economic boom Mitch promised, but I didn’t realize the dollar cost of electricity.
