Time change strategies

 Yes, it is that time again! 

My calendar (below) automatically has an entry for Daylight Savings.

I add a note (below) that says “change clocks”. I get an alert on this note at 3 PM the day before the clocks change. 

We run around the house and change all the clocks on Saturday afternoon (today), almost 12 hours in advance of the actual time change. 

Then, quite frankly, I do not notice the time change, at all, it is invisible to me. I do not notice anything amiss the next morning. I do not walk around for a week complaining about the time change. 

 

If we had some type of event that same Saturday night, this might cause problems. Luckily we rarely have Saturday night plans.

Note - if we had no extra clocks, if the only clocks I had were my phone and my car, which both change automatically, I would not notice the daylight savings change at all. 

But I am a clock person. We have clocks all over the house. Changing clocks is an event. 

For years, most of Indiana did not follow Daylight Savings. We liked that. We liked not changing our clocks. 

Indiana has followed Daylight Savings since 2006. Most of the state stays on Eastern, the western corners remain on Central. 

Would I like to go back to NO time change in my part of Indiana? Yes. Yes, I would. 

The only inconvenience not changing used to have was live network TV (and radio). Since my area did not change, and national TV did, prime time was 7-10pm half the year and 8-11pm the other half. 

Now I watch no live network TV. I also do not listen to the radio. So not following Daylight Savings would have no impact on me. 

Indiana had corner counties that followed their surrounding state’s time zones and were on Daylight Savings.  The northwest corner followed Chicago on central. The southwest corner stayed on central too. The southeast corner stayed on eastern to follow Cincinnati. 

The corners followed their greater metropolitan surrounding areas to stay in sync with the workplace, radio, TV, events. All of this falls under “the convenience of commerce” phrase.

Now, all of Indiana is on eastern and follows daylight savings, except the two western corners.

The history of Daylight Savings in Indiana is complex:  

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana#:~:text=As%20a%20result%20of%20a,%2C%20effective%20April%202%2C%202006.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/01/20/06-563/standard-time-zone-boundary-in-the-state-of-indiana#:~:text=In%201918%2C%20when%20the%20Federal,move%20more%20of%20the%20State.