Think there's any chance Indiana will go back to NOT using Daylight Savings Time?

This was our first year for it, and it seemed like such a waste! Pretty much the only difference I noticed was that kids don't want to go to bed because, thanks to daylight savings, the sun doesn't set till about 10 pm! Then, as soon as Daylight Savings ends, it's suddenly dark out at 5 pm.

I think we were much better off when we didn't have to move our clocks and just let nature take its course as always. "daylight savings" is dumb. Asked by MomOfMax218 48 months ago Similar questions: chance Indiana back Daylight Savings Time Science.

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NO - because of barbecue and golf.... I learned about all of this when I used to do business trips to Washington DC and chatted with the politicos in The Mayflower Hotel bar... Daylight Savings emanated from an idea and from 1907 in London with William Willet who is an architect, (AND a golfer! ). He was riding through town and noticed that at sunrise people have their curtains closed.

He thinks - if instead of that hour coming in the morning of daylight, you gave it to people in the evening they wouldn't block it out, they'd spend it. This idea got really popular, and what with the beginning of World War I etc. , the British think they can maybe use it to save some energy. That's how it comes to America; World War I trying to save some energy...it shifted the time people ask for energy, so it altered the peak load demand and that's worked gret in a wartime economy.

BUT (what a lot of people don't know is that for about five years before World War I, the Chamber of Commerces, on behalf of big department stores in the cities, were pressing President Wilson to give us daylight saving). In fact it was (kind of ironic given colonial history) Boston's Mr. Lincoln Filene who understood that if workers left work while it was still bright outside, they would walk past his department store, see the windows lit up with daylight, walk in and spend something on the retail goods inside. He was right.

He was one of the principle proponents in America. Jumping to 1986 when we went from six to seven months happened because of the barbecue industry who figured it stood to make 100 to 150 million dollars extra by the extension of daylight saving. The golf industry--200 to 400 million dollars. Golf is the last sport that we cannot illuminate.

Golf courses are too big to be lit up at night. So they really profit by having extra daylight saving at the end of the day. People can get in 18 holes after a day of work.

I think the reason we see the extensions of daylight saving is really that money not only makes men bold, but it tends to make them bipartisan. Check out: http://www.shoemakerhoard.com/catalog/spring.html http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1593761066/ref=nosim/avalonpub-20 Sources: Personal Stuff .

Personally, I love it. But then again, in CA. It gets dark at 8pm, not 10pm.

There was a cost to the state for being the lone hold out, they were not willing to pay it any more. The fact is that it does improve efficiency and reduce expenses in lighting and so on. Now that they've taken the plunge, I doubt that they will go back, but you can always push for a change..

My computer already "fell back" and the local bank clock fell, too. " "I am looking for instructions on how to reset the Emerson cks3020 clock radio for the new daylight savings time." "How can I adjust the time to daylight savings on my GPS? " "What is Daylight Savings time supposed to accomplish?

My computer already "fell back" and the local bank clock fell, too.

I am looking for instructions on how to reset the Emerson cks3020 clock radio for the new daylight savings time.

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