DST bites the dust again

[Ren Butler]

http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/8/067007-4368-092.html

Thank goodness. Another effort thwarted.

[PHJIndy]

[lutesk]

I think it stinks, and it's an embarrasment to the state. BTW, I'm a life long Hoosier, 45 years. Why would you not want it to stay light longer in the summer?

[Ren Butler]

Originally posted by lutesk
I think it stinks, and it's an embarrasment to the state. BTW, I'm a life long Hoosier, 45 years. Why would you not want it to stay light longer in the summer?

DST doesn't make it "light longer." It just renames the times that the sun rises and sets.

There's no reason local noon (when the sun is due south) should be at 2 p.m. in Indianapolis. We're already an hour ahead by being in the wrong time zone (Eastern). Why double the error over half the year?

[Grover]

Originally posted by lutesk
I think it stinks, and it's an embarrasment to the state. BTW, I'm a life long Hoosier, 45 years. Why would you not want it to stay light longer in the summer?

I've never understood why people think "an extra hour of daylight" in the summer (even if it isn't really - you are just playing a game with your clock) is soooooo fabulous, but it wouldn't be great to keep it in the winter when we could really use it.

[lutesk]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ren Butler
[B]DST doesn't make it "light longer."

You know what I mean; dark at 9:30 in June instead of 8:30. More time to golf, mow, play with the kids outside. But hey, what do I know, 47 other states can't be right.

[Grover]

Just read on another board that the DST lobby was funded by the tv/radio affiliates. I guess that explains all the coverage and why there was such insistence on getting us synched with NYC instead of the more logical Chicago connection.

[lutesk]

Originally posted by Grover
Just read on another board that the DST lobby was funded by the tv/radio affiliates. I guess that explains all the coverage and why there was such insistence on getting us synched with NYC instead of the more logical Chicago connection.

Yeah, that Chicago connection would be grand, dark at 4:30 in the Winter, lovely.

[Ren Butler]

Originally posted by lutesk

You know what I mean; dark at 9:30 in June instead of 8:30. More time to golf, mow, play with the kids outside. But hey, what do I know, 47 other states can't be right.

Seems to me your problem is with your employer. You need to get off work earlier. Or wake up earlier.

But if you are for DST, you might as well be for double or triple DST. Sunset at midnight! Heck, why don't we just keep the sun out all night, and work during the dark hours?

[Media Boy]

I'm convinced that the Stonecutters are behind the Daylight Savings Time plot.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/CB_Larsson/sim_spri.htm

Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do.
Who leaves Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do.
Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?
We do! We do.
Who robs cave fish of their sight?
Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do! We do.

[mnkywrch]

Let the people decide - not our elected buffoons, err, legislators.

[lutesk]

Originally posted by mnkywrch
Let the people decide - not our elected buffoons, err, legislators.

Bravo. I agree wholeheartedly.

[Ren Butler]

Originally posted by mnkywrch
Let the people decide - not our elected buffoons, err, legislators.

So, which way do you think Hoosiers would vote? It would doubtless be a CLOSE result, as it would in most of the country:

http://www.sleepfoundation.org/PressArchives/yearround.html

Here also is a link to a story about the problems caused by "springing forward"...

http://www.sleepfoundation.org/PressArchives/NSAW2001_press.html

[mnkywrch]

Originally posted by Ren Butler
So, which way do you think Hoosiers would vote? It would doubtless be a CLOSE result, as it would in most of the country:

I really don't know. I can live with a result either way.