Does anybody really know what time it is?
You can bet everyone living within the state of Indiana does... now.
Yesterday, Indiana legislators passed a law requiring the entire state to honor Daylight Savings Time... Finally!
For some reason, Indiana has always been a rebel... doing their own thing in terms of time zones. In fact, their unique observance (in some parts) and avoidance (in other parts) of Daylight Savings Time is actually written into their State Law.
Until now...
Why Isn't Everyone On Daylight Savings Time?
Indiana has been one of three states (Arizona and Hawaii are the others) who have resisted the urge to "spring ahead" from Standard to Daylight Savings time and "fall back" from Daylight Savings to Standard 6 months later.
---> Listen to NPR Audio regarding the controversy in Indiana over Daylight Savings Time.
So, What Time Is It In Indiana?
Here's an example of how cumbersome it has been to determine what time it is in different parts of Indiana.
Oddly enough, SOME parts of Indiana honor Eastern Time, and some honor Central Time. On top of that, some counties do and some counties don't make the switch with Daylight Savings Time each year.
- 76 counties in Indiana are in the Eastern Time Zone, but don't honor Daylight Savings Time
- 11 counties are in the Central Time Zone and they honor BOTH Central Time and Daylight Savings Time
- 5 counties honor BOTH Eastern Time and Daylight Savings Time.
---> Here's how it all breaks down.
This has been a long-standing controversial issue. In fact, in SOME Indiana counties, the citizens collectively banded together and, for years, have refused to honor the time zone they were "supposed" to be in. Those Hoosiers...
Perhaps the funniest part is that there actually IS something known as "Indiana Time"!
New State Law: Indiana WILL "Spring Forward" In April 2006
The battle to switch the entire state to Daylight Savings Time was contentious in the legislative chambers of the Capitol Building as well, with several failed attempts to get Senate Bill 127 passed.
However, Wednesday night the Senate voted 28-22 to adopt the Daylight Savings Time bill. Then late last night, in a 51-46 vote, the House adopted the bill.
First-term Representative, Troy Woodruff (R) from Vincennes, was the deciding vote -- he switched his vote at the last minute. And, by voting AGAINST what the majority of his constituents wanted, Woodruff may have put his seat in jeopardy. (He only won by 193 votes the last time.)
---> Listen to today's NPR segment with Indiana legislator Troy Woodruff about Indiana's new ruling.
Indiana's Governor is expected to sign the bill into law, making April 2006 the first time that the entire state of Indiana will be honoring Daylight Savings Time.
Interesting Side Note...
People in OTHER states are rebelling against the switch to Daylight Savings Time each year too.
For example, farmers, who must wake with the sun no matter what time their clock says, are greatly inconvenienced by having to change their schedule in order to sell their crops to people who observe daylight saving time.
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Yes, Mitch Daniels is behind this retarded time change, and Troy Woodruff changed his vote, in an e-mail, Troy told me that he was totally AGAINST it, but changed his vote from 'NO' to 'YES' at 11:59 p.m.
Mitch brought this up at the wrong time ... election year. Light bills have risen by $20.00 since this childish time change and I have lost 2 hours a day, I want them back or compositted for those days, $8,100.00 (cash only, no checks), they can split the bill if they want. And go back to "real time", an hour ahead of what he has us now.
If Mitch wants to "screw" with clocks two times a year, he should have been in a different state. One of the many things people loved about Indiana is that we didn't f*** with our clocks, we left them alone (other than resetting them due to power failure).
Indiana used to be a great state to live in, but Mitch changed that. I hate going to bed when it's still daylight.
Neighbors & realitives aren't gonna vote for neither one of the ********.
I'm with the rest of you... there at 9pm trying to stuff dark blankets over & around the windows so my kids can go to sleep. Meanwhile the sun hasn't even gone over the horizon yet, for crying out loud. I used to put them to bed at 8p but I just don't think I could block that kind of sunlight now with just a blanket! Duct tape maybe. We went out tonight for a treat, and when we got home I was surprised to see it was after 8pm (gee...felt more like 7pm... I wonder why.) and I had to start getting the kids ready for bed already. Every evening I curse Mitch Daniels for being such an a**. He was bought out. If anything we belong on Central time.
I am reading the comments for the first time today. Boy, you ought to live the northwest corner of Indiana. Chicago owns this part of the state. Michigan owns the rest, well maybe Ohio too. I travel 7 miles east or south and lose one hour. In the past, we have never felt like a Hoosier until the 7 months when we were forced to spring ahead with Chicago and the rest of the state of Ind didn't move their clocks. Oh, how nice it was to be a Hoosier for a while. It felt so good to travel east or south and be on the same time. Now, we have no identity with Indiana. Wait until the 4th of July when the fireworks will start at 10:30 P.M. EST.
We have already voted out our State Rep. Mary Kay Budek because she went along with the governor on the time change and the toll road lease.
Heidi,you are exactly right about all the daylight.In my county Martin which is thankfully in the Central time zone for now if we were on eastern daylight time like most of Indiana by June 21 counting twilight it would not be dark until 10;00pm thats nuts.This state is geographicaly in the Central time zone this is a fact!The eastern daylight crowd will always say it will get dark extremely early in the late fall and winter months well it is usually cloudy,rainy,snowy or nasty outside anyway and do not forget with eastern daylight time you have the one hour later sun rises so kids will be waiting for buses or walking to school in the dark next school year!
I think being moved to EST daylight savings was a stupid move, when you have young kids and it doesn't get dark until 9PM. they don't understand why there going to bed when it is still bright out, and getting up in the dark. I think Mitch Daniels should be voted out of office.
They claimed that for us in Indiana not being on DST that it was costing businesses millions of dollars. Now that we are on it I have yet to see a change in prices.. no SAVINGS are we consumers getting, yet everything is going up in price. Now it is still daylight when i put my kids to bed, which it is like MOM it's still day light out side why do i have to go to bed when it is day light, So I calmly explained to them that our government is forcing them to go to bed when it is still like. If the state government really cared about it's residence they would have listened and left things status quo. Alas they did not, and we the people get showed we have no say in anything, so makes some of us lose faith in our political system
We will survive.. as us Hoosiers always do ..
Dave Crooks voted against daylight savings time.He is the one however who got the part in the daylight savings time legislation that stated the governor had to have the DOT hold regional hearings on which time zone counties should be in it was up to the counties to stay in eastern or petition for central which many did.Now the commissioners of southwest Indiana are all considering re-petitioning for eastern where they will have to draft new petitions stating their previous petitions and the case they all made last year at the DOT hearing in Jasper was all a bunch of lies!!How foolish they have made us look in southwest Indiana because at the most a few thousand people in some large counties complained about central time in my county Martin it was about 200 people complaining how rediculous.I just wish Woodruff would have kept his word and not voted for DST so we would still be on eastern standard time which I prefer over EDT or CDT which is what most people want.Daylight savings time is way overrated!!