The Fun Times Guide

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!!

I think I made a mistke in my previous post, It was Troy Woodruff who changed his vote at the last minute, he was against it, then changed his vote at the last minute.
I still have a particial list of those retarded people who voted/wanted it as such M.Daniels, Dave Crooks & Troy Woodruff.
So IF there's a Torr in office and IF he voted AGAINST it, I appologize.

OK, so what do we need to do to get this mess reversed? I am sure that there are enough Hoosiers that agree this ludicrous decision has at best, had a negative impact on quality of life that concertedly we can unite in one voice and be heard. It may not be for two years but I bet we can make a lot of noise in the interim.

I was 10,000 % against this childish retarded Daylight Savings Time from the beginning, when it started, the reason for it was "because Illinois does it", do we have to copy off of other states?
I can't beleive a govener's top prioty, the most important thing to him is to f--k with the clocks two times a year, I didn't know our time was broke. Have you heard the saying "If it's not broke, don't fix it" ?
I f--ked the alarm clock & vcr clock, another clock I didn't change time but taped a piece of paper over didn't change time on watch, but time the alarm goes off for meds.
Mitch Daniels put DST before health & welfare matters.
I e-mailed another politician last name is Torr, he e-mailed me back saying he was totally against it, but the last session they were one 'yes' vote short from it passing, at 11:59 pm, the person (Torr) changed his vote from 'no' to 'yes', if he was totally against it, I say he was paid BIG BIG bucks in cold hard cash to change his vote. Needless to say neither M.Daniels nor Torr will get my vote in next election, neither will anyone else currently in office because of this, if they want this, get 'em out send them to IL.
Oh, since this happend, I now say they combined Illinois & Indiana to form one state, I call it Illiana. Guess that means we are now 49 states. When I was in high school a class I took said that it wasn't legal to do that. Around 1981 that is.
I wasn't gonna screw my clocks, neither was dad, but he changed his mind when the retarded thing went into effect, mom & dad didn't wan't to wait on me, so I had to change mine and my body can't get adjusted to a change, we hadn't done this since 1969 or 1970. Now doing about the same thing at about the same time for about 20 years, not counting school years, I have to put my body & biological clock in shock.
I lay in bed awake an hour, then next morn, I don't want to get up, the clock reads 7:00, but the REAL time is 6:00. If I wanted to f--- my clocks two times a year, I would have moved to IL or a section of IN that the line went through to change clocks.
If people want to start work an hour earlier, why don't they?
Can you turn those clocks far enough ahead to get the lottery numbers and then turn them back iin time to buy tickets with winning numbers for that night? .... I think NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!
What can we citizens do but vote these people out of office?
Find out who voted for this retarded CST DST thing and on the next election, vote thier out of office.

I live in Martin county one of the new central time counties which is fine with me I wanted central time but since the business interests own Gov.Mitch Daniels he made no reccomendation for the whole state to go central which he promised to do when running for gov.Now Martin county commissioners are trying to get all area counties moved to central to move back to eastern what a joke they tried eastern daylight time over thirty years ago and everyone hated it if your like me or Tammy from another post living on the western side of the state on June 21 total darkness would not occur until around 10:00p.m.! Thats rediculous which is why years ago the people voted the state be on central time but the DOT split the state down the middle Then Gov. Branigan ask the DOT to restore the state to central time then the DOT moved the line where it was until now.This was over thirty years ago this thing is far from over and Tammy is right the politicians voting for this will pay especially the GOV in 2 years!!

Has anyone given any thought to what this will do to families or are our politicians so immersed in their campaign contributions from big business that the people who put them in office do not matter? I work in Illinois (CST), I live just on the state line in Indiana. I have four children who are all active in sports. How am I supposed to get them to all of their practices and games, most of which start at 4:15/3:15 (CST) when my husband and I do not get off work until 4:30/3:30 CST? Dealing with this six months out of the year is bad enough. But now the 'fun' will continue all through the year. What will inevitably happen is that parents, especially single mothers, will end up dropping their children from sports, which will have horrible consequences for our schools. Best case scenario would have children staying in their sports and activities but parents not being able to be at their games, etc. Daylight savings time is a horrible thing for families. I particularly don't care how much revenue it brings into the state. Without strong families, the new revenue will be spent on teen pregnancy, drug treatment and crime prevention when children are left to their own devices because their parents can't get them to practices or games. Way to go...can't wait until the next election...listen up politicians pushing daylight savings time...guaranteed...you are OUTTA there!!

I don't want dst. I don't understand why people make such a fuss. What is so hard about adding or subtracting an hour if you live near the state line that does observe dst. All of IN does need to either be in eastern or central.

WHAT TIME ZONE WILL INDIANAPOLIA BE IN?

Just correcting your title...It's Daylight Saving Time. No "s" after
saving. :-)

I'm doing a research paper on it and learned this in the process. I'm using Marilyn's blog in my paper. My husband use to live in Indiana. Right after he moved there he was late for a state meeting because it was in another time zone and he didn't realize it. So he can relate to what Marilyn said.
:-)

Terri, we wrote an article on our other site listing all the ways you can contact your local, state, and federal leaders.

For example, you can contact the U.S. Senators and Representatives who act on behalf of the state of Indiana here. (Your U.S. Senators in Congress are: Richard G. Lugar (R) and Evan Bayh (D), but you must specify your exact zip code to get the Reps.)

And the state legislators in the Indiana House and Senate can be found here.

Finally, you can find your Indiana local leaders here -- based specifically on the city in which you live.

Deeper into those sites, you can also see exactly how those leaders have voted on key issues, etc.

Hope that helps.

I am so grateful that we are now observing daylight savings time! Now we just need to stay on Eastern time Zone as well. If I new who to write to I would do so voicing my opinion.