Could it be that those of us insisting that Indiana get in step with the rest of the nation on daylight saving time might have been wrong? Here is a definite case of real harm caused by DST:
A teenager in Westmoreland County who spent 12 days in a juvenile detention facility when he was wrongly accused of making a bomb threat says he doesn't want to go back to the school and he wants an apology from administrators.
Police arrested Hempfield Area High School sophomore Cody Webb, 15, last month after school administrators claimed he called in the threat 3:17am on March 12th.
But officials now concede that the call didn't come from Webb and the misunderstanding stemmed from Daylight Saving Time.
Webb, an honor student who never even had a detention, admits that he called the school's hotline that morning
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I would vote for just to stop changing our damn clocks - either on DST or off, I don't really care, just stop changing.
The funniest thing is that as Indiana politicians finally and belatedly decide to hop on the time-change bandwagon, the rest of the country is coming to the conclusion that the whole thing has been a waste of effort.
Leave it to us to adopt a bit of so-called progress just when the rest of the country is deciding it's likely a waste of time.
I've been following this story from across the border. Ohio is too far west to really benefit from fast time (DST). I can't imagine why anyone in Indiana would ever want it in the first place. Indiana's meridians place it squarely in the Central time zone. When most of Indiana was on Eastern year round, this was essentially being on Central daylight year round. I found it very annoying to get up in utter blackness in March this year. I can only imagine why someone living in say the Sullivan area of Indiana would hate DST.
BTW, Ohio was originally in the Central time zone before the federal govt forced it into Eastern in the 1920s and 1930s.
Steve, I think they've determined that moving up the start of DST three weeks has been largely a waste, another case of a politician doing something so that it looks like he's doing something. I haven't read any stories that lead me to believe that the rest of the country thinks it is a waste of time.
Some people are never going to be happy about this, regardless.