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Growing up in Indiana, we never had daylight savings time. Standard time year-round. It was finally adopted after tireless arguing about how it was difficult fo

Growing up in Indiana, we never had daylight savings time. Standard time year-round. It was finally adopted after tireless arguing about how it was difficult for business to be an hour different from the rest of the country for half the year. Those against adopting it did use the "milking the cows" argument also. I don't think at the time people could foresee the impact of online business, when it really doesn't matter where you are or what time it is.

BeetleB 8y ago
Indiana was the worst. The western part (Purdue) were on central time. The rest on Eastern. For people in neighboring states it was painful.
- Broken_Hippo 8y ago
  When was the Lafayette (The purdue area) on central time? At least 23 years ago it was on eastern, though I think a couple counties to the west was central time, which was pretty common with cities dependent more on cities in Illinois than greater Indiana or Ohio. (Gary, for example, or Terre Haute might have been as well, though that memory is fuzzy). Source: Graduated high school about an hour from there, then lived in different small towns outside of the area. Was pretty popular for folks to go party at purdue on the weekends if you knew someone there and had willing enough parents. This was both before the adopted DST and after.
  - BeetleB 8y ago
    Hmm... I may have been wrong. I guess the confusion is that some counties followed DST, and some didn't. And then some were on Central and some on Eastern.
    - collinmanderson 8y ago
      > And then some were on Central and some on Eastern. Currently are
Broken_Hippo 8y ago
Figuring out what time it was in other states was always a pain. I worked at a call center pre-DST: Our opening hours shifted during DST to allow for proper call time from the rest of the nation.
logfromblammo 8y ago
The problem was that the decision to adopt DST or not, or even what time zone to be on, was made at the county level, so you ended up with this patchwork. It was never a problem in Marion County, but the areas around Chicago and Evansville were pretty confusing. My major problem is less about DST than the fact that all of Indiana should be on Chicago time all year. Mean solar noon is waaaaay off from clock noon, all year long. I got really f'ing sick of waiting at the school bus stop in the dark for 10 years. The cow milking argument has always been pure idiocy. Let's make the "kids starting school before the cows even wake up" argument for once.
xen2xen1 8y ago
That's a terribly small part of the world (I'm sitting there). Yes, it was annoying when we did switch to DST. The arguments were all economic (We need to match Indy!). I've known some famers that called DST slave time, as it just ended up making them work more.

BeetleB 8y ago

Indiana was the worst. The western part (Purdue) were on central time. The rest on Eastern. For people in neighboring states it was painful.

Broken_Hippo 8y ago
When was the Lafayette (The purdue area) on central time? At least 23 years ago it was on eastern, though I think a couple counties to the west was central time, which was pretty common with cities dependent more on cities in Illinois than greater Indiana or Ohio. (Gary, for example, or Terre Haute might have been as well, though that memory is fuzzy). Source: Graduated high school about an hour from there, then lived in different small towns outside of the area. Was pretty popular for folks to go party at purdue on the weekends if you knew someone there and had willing enough parents. This was both before the adopted DST and after.
- BeetleB 8y ago
  Hmm... I may have been wrong. I guess the confusion is that some counties followed DST, and some didn't. And then some were on Central and some on Eastern.
  - collinmanderson 8y ago
    > And then some were on Central and some on Eastern. Currently are

Broken_Hippo 8y ago

Figuring out what time it was in other states was always a pain. I worked at a call center pre-DST: Our opening hours shifted during DST to allow for proper call time from the rest of the nation.

logfromblammo 8y ago

The problem was that the decision to adopt DST or not, or even what time zone to be on, was made at the county level, so you ended up with this patchwork. It was never a problem in Marion County, but the areas around Chicago and Evansville were pretty confusing. My major problem is less about DST than the fact that all of Indiana should be on Chicago time all year. Mean solar noon is waaaaay off from clock noon, all year long. I got really f'ing sick of waiting at the school bus stop in the dark for 10 years. The cow milking argument has always been pure idiocy. Let's make the "kids starting school before the cows even wake up" argument for once.

xen2xen1 8y ago

That's a terribly small part of the world (I'm sitting there). Yes, it was annoying when we did switch to DST. The arguments were all economic (We need to match Indy!). I've known some famers that called DST slave time, as it just ended up making them work more.