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Question: What should Indiana do about their time zones?
#1
Wholly in Central
 
#2
Wholly in Eastern
 
#3
Stay the same
 
#4
Move the time zone line
 
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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: March 07, 2015, 05:35:47 PM »

There is a strong tendency for time zone boundaries to creep westward thanks to the general belief that mornings are wasted time.  Indiana should be in the Eastern Time Zone along with Illinois and everything else east of the Mississippi.  (Unless we have New England switch to the Atlantic Time Zone.)  Of course we should combine that with an elimination of Daylight Stupid Time.
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« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2015, 10:53:57 PM »

There is a strong tendency for time zone boundaries to creep westward thanks to the general belief that mornings are wasted time.  Indiana should be in the Eastern Time Zone along with Illinois and everything else east of the Mississippi.  (Unless we have New England switch to the Atlantic Time Zone.)  Of course we should combine that with an elimination of Daylight Stupid Time.

There is no way Illinois should be in Eastern.

If you really think local solar noon should be the center of the day, then perhaps you'd prefer working 8 to 4 instead of 9 to 5.  The sad fact is that our culture hates mornings and has for a long time now.  I have no problem with acknowledging that reality.
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« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2015, 10:42:39 PM »

Most Hoosiers want to have our pre-Gov.Daniels era time structure where we don't change our clocks. Personally I think Indiana should be central time. So should Western Ohio.
Yeah, if we wanted time zones in the US to closely match solar time, that would make sense.  But it's clear that not what most people want.
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