I know Arizona businesses always knew that Indianapolis was two hours apart from Phoenix. Same goes with Honolulu being a five hour difference. Now, it is a mess.

I say that from personal experience. I actually live on a border with another state

I have ran into the issues with many people in business. It wasn’t the people in Ohio or Illinois that were the problem, it was the people in New York, LA, Denver, UK, France, etc…

DST boosters proclaiming to the world that we couldn’t add and subtract 1, 2, 3, etc., would not exactly encourage businesses to come to Hoosierland

The issue was not that people couldn’t add and subtract, it was they didn’t know how much they should add or subtract because their own clocks changed while theirs did not. People in LA that deal with Chicago would always add 2, but when dealing with Indiana it was sometimes 2, sometimes 3. From what I could tell, it wasn’t that people in Indiana couldn’t figure it out, it is just that the less you dealt with Indiana, the more likely you were to screw up the time.

Again, I say this as someone opposed to DST nationally, and someone that knows that Indiana is completely in the Central time zone regardless what the DOT says.

I have family members who have businesses that have to work with clients and suppliers in multiple time zones. They had no problems. In my previous job I dealt with people across time zones. Again, no problems. Maybe this is a your-mileage-may-vary-situation, but I think that if you want to make year round standard time into some huge problem, it is a problem. Perhaps being on a time zone border and a state border made being on standard time all the time just a part of life in this neck of the woods for most people. We were used to Ohio being an hour ahead of us for most of the year, and it was no big deal for most of us. We just lived with it.

I can’t count the number of people who have become rich under the new regime!

It will be on April 21 when the sun rises before 700h again. This DST is wrong. I have watched the comments to this blog and since the time change, many folks wish that the DST switch should go back to at the first Sunday of April. The last Sunday of April would be better and abolishing DST would be the best solution. Arizona does not have a problem by staying on year-round standard/daylight time. The surrounding states change and there are no major problems.

What would create uniformity is that if everyone was simply on the same times and businesses adjust their calendar for the sunlight in the area. The world is a much smaler place than it was 200-300 years ago.

The trouble is people can’t even visualize how universal time would work. The idea of time zones is so ingrained in people’s minds they can’t see any other way.

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Last time my sister flew she sat next to an insurance adjuster who told her he was from La Porte County.She mentioned that she had a brother who really was into the Indiana time debate,so he explained to her that even though they live in CTZ they keep their clocks at home on ETZ because of the schools,just across the county line.That just shows that even those who live on the time border have figured out a solution that now ‘always works’.

DST is finally stabilized,so I personally dont see any change,which would please certain constituencies, but cause general chaos for many more.

I hate DST, but must point out that for most people outside of Indiana, not knowing if we were GMT – 5 or GMT-4 was a pain. People get used to you being on the same time as them, then you’re an hour off. It is just an easy mistake to make, and it was made frequently. It happened more often the farther you got away form Indiana, and dealing with International was even worse. I have missed many meetings because the idiots on the other end of the line didn’t understand our time zone oddity.

That said, DST still needs to die nationally, there are still other issues. For example, Europe doesn’t change time at the same dates as us, so there are days that we’re out of sync. As you pointed out, DST wastes energy.

Most importantly for Indiana, people outside the state LOGICALLY assume we’re on the same time as Chicago, since we’re geographically in the central time zone.

If we care about business and changed to DST to avoid confusion, shouldn’t we be on the same time as the top 5 city that is under 200 miles away rather than the city that is over 700 miles away?