So now that the statehouse voted and Mitch signed Daylight savings time

[salin]

there is a move on a county by county level to try to petition to be on either central OR eastern time? What? So Monroe has decided to go with whatever Marion decides to do, but Lawrence (one county south) has petitioned to go onto central time. WHAT????

How idiotic to pass a law and not make certain to dictate a specific time zone, with perhaps a few community exceptions for those cities intertwined with cities in other states (and time zones.) Anyone else reading anything about this lunacy?

[sam sarrha]

1. oh Great.!! Who the hell is going to set my VCR.!!! Unfunded Mandate.!!

[salin]

5. even more fun when living in a market getting stations from different

parts of the state. One can chose to watch the Six O'Clock news, at five, or at Seven - depending upon the combination of home county's designated time zone vs. the time zone of county in which the station resides.

[INdemo]

2. Unhappy Hoosiers

there are a lot of unhappy Hoosiers over this time change..Daniels has the typical Republican mentality so should we really expect anything that would make any sense

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. Sooooo

what time is it ?

[salin]

4. *snicker*

maybe its time to try again to "go metric" while we are at it. But we will let the individual counties decide which metrics to adopt. Bloomington would like grams - due to all the scientific endeavors, but Bedford wants to keep pounds - but will use liters for liquid, then up in Fort Wayne the meters will be used with liters (keep folks buying the cars confused how much gas really costs, and all) but it will remain with pounds...

:eyes:

[thinkingwoman]

6. I can explain the Law County decision

There are a LOT of farmers there and all of them are pissed about the prospect of going to Eastern Daylight Savings time. I don't fully understand why they are tied to a clock but they claim it screws up everything for them to be an hour faster than "reality"--meaning they want the sun to be directly overhead at noon (not at 11:00 am) and they want sunrise and sunset at reasonable hours (not darkness falling at 10:30 pm).

That's why Law Co voted central...it is the only zone that makes sense for them AND Law Co was led to believe during the Mitch campaign that if the state switched to DST it would only be central. I had several face to face conversations with Law Co elected officials and Repuke party people (thanks, I appreciate all sympathy extended my way for enduring those encounters) and ALL of them had been told it would be central time or no DST at all. Remember the Lt. Gov is from Law Co...these people thought they had inside info! Many people in Law Co are royally pissed!

Mitch has certainly clusterf*cked this whole thing hasn't he? Who here is surprised...anyone? Anyone?

:eyes:

[salin]

7. so they pass "going to daylight savings time"

but don't say which? Just give indication - but not in the law - that it is going to be central (interesting that I think most folks in Indy think it is going eastern) - and the idiots in the statehouse (legislators and mitch) - don't realize that this opens the door for a much crazier situation than not being on daylight savings time at all?

I can't imagine that they won't try to fix it before we have a patchwork of times hopscotching across the state like a checkerboard. But then again - this is Indiana.

Almost like Mitch and crew want to turn the House back over to the democrats. Maybe they don't like one party rule - nowhere to hide/scapegoat.

[thinkingwoman]

8. Interesting theory (nowhere to hide)

Hmmm, you may be right about that. When I met Mitch face to face he was very likeable and seemed intelligent (which surprised me) but he had a definite Napoleon thing going on.

Since I'm still recovering from my previous journalistic career, I'm steeped in cynicism and I'd chalked up the DST chaos to promising too many people too many things and leaving it up for grabs rather than taking a stand that might alienate one side or the other.

Of course, all sides are alienated now.

I cannot see how the state can patchwork DST in reality. I just can't imagine that will fly. But who knows. Five years ago I would have said it wasn't possible for one bad president to get away with so much corruption, criminality, cronyism, and synapse shredding incompetence, but...you know the rest. :shrug: