Sun, 29 Oct 2006

Surplus Daylight
Backwards ClockWell, the rest of the State has "fallen back", so their clocks are now in sync with mine. It might be my imagination, but I seem to have noticed a decided upswing in bitching by even national commentators this year, with The Onion even running a sarcastic blurb on the "national daylight surplus".

Closer to home, even more folks are noticing the absurdity of it all. We're all Losing Track of Time. Maybe it's because we really don't have representative government in Indiana: according to this article from the Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel:

The statewide adoption of daylight-saving time was opposed by 49 percent, with 44 percent supporting it. Seven percent were not sure. Republicans supported daylight time 47 percent to 45 percent, while Democrats opposed it 53 percent to 41 percent. Of independents, 51 percent opposed it while 43 percent supported it.

Democrats are playing on voter anger over this to good effect, and it will undoubtedly cost a bit of a Republican player in the Indiana House his seat.

Between this and selling off the toll road, it's going to be a tough sell for the Republicans to retain control. And that, in the end, will be a very good thing here.

Update: Here's a really bizarre proposal for a single time zone US...

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On 10/31/2006 09:22:55
Arwin wrote

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