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Time Zone switch for Indiana may not happen
Smokeeater 38
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I like the time zone we are in now and see no reason to change. I like the fact that we don't change time in the summer also.
Time switch may stay grounded in the House
By Mike Smith
Associated Press Writer
February 16, 2004 6:28 PM
INDIANAPOLIS -- House Speaker Patrick Bauer suggested Monday that the chamber may not vote on a resolution seeking to have most of Indiana moved to the Central time zone and observe daylight-saving time.
"It might not (get a vote)," said the South Bend Democrat, who has the power to decide such matters. "I'm not saying one way or the other, really. I'm just studying the situtation."
Bauer said the divisive issue had suddenly popped up, he was perplexed as to why "it's back on the table," and lawmakers already have "a lot on our plate."
"I don't see advantages or disadvantages, and I think that's the problem," Bauer said in response to reporters' questions on the topic. "Some people are so convinced that a time change is going to bring in jobs and things like that, and other people believe time change will ruin their life. There's not a consistency."
Longtime Rep. Chet Dobis, D-Merrillville, said last Thursday he wanted the House to vote on a resolution asking the federal government to move most of Indiana to the Central time zone. He said he sensed momentum behind the switch and believed the resolution would pass the House.
But he acknowledged then that he had yet to discuss the idea with Bauer. The speaker said Monday the two have since talked.
Currently, 82 counties are in the Eastern time zone, but 77 do not observe daylight-saving time. Five counties in southeastern Indiana are in the Eastern zone and do observe daylight time. Five counties in the northwest corner and five in the southwestern corner are in the Central time zone and observe daylight time.
Dobis said the resolution would ask the U.S. Department of Transportation, which regulates time zones, to move all but five counties in southeastern Indiana to the Central time zone. He said the agency would then hold field hearings in the state and consider moving the time zone boundary.
Dobis said he believed a time zone switch automatically would put the state on daylight-saving time.
At least 24 times over the past three decades, legislation to change Indiana's clocks has failed in the General Assembly. Many of the proposals would have kept most of Indiana in the Eastern time zone but have it observe daylight time.
That would mean an extra hour of sunlight during the early-evening hours in the summer. Moving to the Central time zone and observing daylight time would keep the sun relative to the clock the same as it is now in the summer, but the sun would set ealier in the winter.
Bauer said many people in his district oppose a time switch, but he did not absolutely rule out a vote.
"Every time you have an action, you have a reaction, so we need some time to let it be chewed on, if you will," he said.
http://www.indystar.com/articles/9/121308-3809-127.html
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Time switch may stay grounded in the House
By Mike Smith
Associated Press Writer
February 16, 2004 6:28 PM
INDIANAPOLIS -- House Speaker Patrick Bauer suggested Monday that the chamber may not vote on a resolution seeking to have most of Indiana moved to the Central time zone and observe daylight-saving time.
"It might not (get a vote)," said the South Bend Democrat, who has the power to decide such matters. "I'm not saying one way or the other, really. I'm just studying the situtation."
Bauer said the divisive issue had suddenly popped up, he was perplexed as to why "it's back on the table," and lawmakers already have "a lot on our plate."
"I don't see advantages or disadvantages, and I think that's the problem," Bauer said in response to reporters' questions on the topic. "Some people are so convinced that a time change is going to bring in jobs and things like that, and other people believe time change will ruin their life. There's not a consistency."
Longtime Rep. Chet Dobis, D-Merrillville, said last Thursday he wanted the House to vote on a resolution asking the federal government to move most of Indiana to the Central time zone. He said he sensed momentum behind the switch and believed the resolution would pass the House.
But he acknowledged then that he had yet to discuss the idea with Bauer. The speaker said Monday the two have since talked.
Currently, 82 counties are in the Eastern time zone, but 77 do not observe daylight-saving time. Five counties in southeastern Indiana are in the Eastern zone and do observe daylight time. Five counties in the northwest corner and five in the southwestern corner are in the Central time zone and observe daylight time.
Dobis said the resolution would ask the U.S. Department of Transportation, which regulates time zones, to move all but five counties in southeastern Indiana to the Central time zone. He said the agency would then hold field hearings in the state and consider moving the time zone boundary.
Dobis said he believed a time zone switch automatically would put the state on daylight-saving time.
At least 24 times over the past three decades, legislation to change Indiana's clocks has failed in the General Assembly. Many of the proposals would have kept most of Indiana in the Eastern time zone but have it observe daylight time.
That would mean an extra hour of sunlight during the early-evening hours in the summer. Moving to the Central time zone and observing daylight time would keep the sun relative to the clock the same as it is now in the summer, but the sun would set ealier in the winter.
Bauer said many people in his district oppose a time switch, but he did not absolutely rule out a vote.
"Every time you have an action, you have a reaction, so we need some time to let it be chewed on, if you will," he said.
http://www.indystar.com/articles/9/121308-3809-127.html
Get the job done and come home safe guys.
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Comments
"Save the Whalers, they need jobs too."
Ill never understand why anyone would want to keep changing times every 6 months, it just doesent make any sence.
I hope we never change it, all it will do is confuse the heck out of everyone.
Ill never understand why a women would dedicate her entire life to making one man miserable when she could make so many men happy
My big problem is with the switch to Central time. Why is this needed? How can it bring in jobs? I live in the NE corner of the state and it would make it like summertime time all year long. People have a hard time with it during the summer now they want use to deal with it all year long?
He counties near big areas that change time I can see changing, as the do now. Most of the people that live there work in the different time zone.
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I rush in where others flee.
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On the contrary, the rest of the contry should catch up with us and stop all that swiching time nonsence.
How can swiching time every 6 months be easyer than staying on the same tima all year arround? It just makes more sence to keep it the same and not jump arround.
Ill never understand why a women would dedicate her entire life to making one man miserable when she could make so many men happy
Probably also to save money on lights, etc.
T. Jefferson: "[When doing Constitutional interpretation], let us [go] back to the time when [it] was adopted. [Rather than] invent a meaning [let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
I have to agree the simplicity of NOT switching clocks two times per year is preferred. The fact that the much of the rest of the world doesn't get it is their problem. Any business leaders that are too slow to understand the concept of Eastern Standard Time all year round are probably not good Hoosier material anyway.
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