Remember to Fall Backward

Remember, today is the last day of Daylight Saving Time. Tonight, before you go to bed don't forget to set your clocks back an hour (unless you don't want to take advantage of that wonderful extra hour of sleep, glorious, glorious sleep).

Some interesting Daylight Saving facts:
-This year is the first year that Indiana, come April, will start to participate in Daylight Saving. This makes it the 48th state to do so and ends decades of confusion for midwesterners.
-Of course that might not matter as Congress is, as far as we know, still mulling over the idea of extending Daylight Savings by 2 months.
-The ever useful wikipedia has a list of areas that do and do not observe Daylight Saving.

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By Garth Johnston in News on October 29, 2005 5:34 PM

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Greg Rozelle

Unless the Legislators repeals the daylight saving bill. Most of Indiana will move their clocks forward next year. Some counties have petition to be on Central Time, if approved they will not move their clocks forward but will become Central Daylight Time. So Part of Indiana will be on Central Time and the other part will be on Eastern Time all year around. All of Indiana will change their clocks back in the fall.

dio

hey mr. ponce-dude, so what do you call people who berate people for berating people? =)

Benjamin Franklin

Actually, farmers really hate Daylight Saving adjustments, because it throws off the body clocks of their animals. It's a myth that DST was designed for farmers. It was actually designed to save energy (originally, it was to save candle wax).

The Dude

I'm always amused when people berate others on comments based on minor spelling errors and ignoring the immediacy of the Internet and the inherent tendency for people to mispell.

Do you berate people for saying grammatically incorrect sentences in public?

Ponce.

dio

I'm always amused when people who call others stupid can't spell.

sp

oops, sorry, didnt read the whole post. I was just told last night that Indianna didnt participate, I'm very very disapointed in them for submitting to the idiocy which is clock adjusting.