re: One Hundred Years Later, the Madness of Daylight Saving Time Endures

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One Hundred Years Later, the Madness of Daylight Saving Time Endures

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No one enjoys changing clocks or losing sleep. Enough already.

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What is retarded is how some states recognize it and some don't leading to mass confusion for anyone who deals with clients in those states.

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And then there's Indiana...

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The U.S. state of Indiana is split between Eastern and Central time zones. The official dividing line has moved progressively west from its original location on the Indiana–Ohio border, to a position dividing Indiana down the middle, and finally to its current location along much of the Indiana–Illinois border. Being on the western frontier of the Eastern time zone resulted in opposition from many in the state to observing daylight saving time for decades. The 2005 decision by the Indiana General Assembly to implement daylight saving time remains controversial.

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CSB time: in the mid-90s, I was sent to Lafayette to conduct software training at a chain of rent-to-own stores located in the northeastern part of the Hoosier State. Unfortunately for me, we worked over the weekend of the "fall back" to standard time.

Imagine trying to coordinate a Sunday morning conference call between locations that were not only in two different time zones, but either did or did not observe DST - and all were within a hundred mile radius.

Here's hoping Florida's Sunshine Act will spark a national movement to do away with this nonsense once and for all....

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People who like standard time, with it getting dark earlier, are probably all fatasses who just go home after work and sit on the couch watching TV.

If you have outdoor hobbies, that extra daylight after work to do those hobbies is why you work. Plus, you can knock out yard work after work and have your weekends free to do more outdoor hobbies.

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Again, we're talking about a difference of an hour.

Without Daylight Saving Time, it would still be daylight until 8-8:30 every night during the summer. That's plenty of time for me to get after work hobbies and yard work done.

Everyone seems to be forgetting that it will be daylight much later in the summer, regardless of Daylight Savings Time.

I would gladly trade a little more daylight in the mornings for the daylight from 8 to 9 PM that Daylight Savings Time gives me.