When I Retire..... Im not changin the @%&*! Clock!!!

[dooleysm]

The new governor in Indiana pushed through a law requiring DST in Indiana. For years we did not follow DST and never changed our clocks, it was great. The governor was convinced that Indiana needed DST to help businesses, which were losing money because people didn't want to deal with them because they never knew what time it was in Indiana.

After the law went through it was left up to the counties to decide if they wanted Eastern or Central time. As you can imagine, some went each way. Now I live in a pocket of 7 counties in the soutwest part of the state that went to Central time, surrounded by counties that went with Eastern time.

So, before the change, people outside Indiana may not have known what time it was, but everyone in Indiana sure did. Now, nobody outside or inside the state has any idea what time it is!

 

[Bird]

Ahh the benifits of living in Arizona. Plus being retired. Heck most of the time I don't even know what day it much less what time it is.

I agree; wish we'd just pick a time and stay with it instead of changing twice a year. But in the summer of 1994, I was doing gas leakage surveys in Texas, and since I was working alone with no gas company employee along, I started every morning as soon as it was light enough for me to read a serial number on a gas meter. Then if it got too hot in the afternoon, I could quit early.

And then I went to a job in Arizona. On that job, the gas company wanted their employees to go along with me for me to teach them how to do the surveys. They started work at 8 a.m.; normal time, right? But for me, being accustomed to Texas daylight savings time, it felt like I was sitting around doing nothing until 10 a.m.; 3 hours of daylight wasted.

 

[Jimbrown]

Bird I guess most of the salried companies go by the clock but My experience is that most of the self employed contractor types do just what you did. When I was building the house most of the contractors were on site by 5 AM and quit around 2 or 3 PM. Heck it is daylight here in the summer at 4 AM. I constantly find myself in town at the mall or someplace and and am surprised to find everything closed and then I realize its only 9 am and I am thinking its lunch time.

 

[mjarrels]

I think my truck clock is still set on Washington State time from when I bought it in December 1993. I keep track of what day it is from the tag sale show on the radio every friday morning.

mark

 

[rback33]

I must say I laugh a lot when I hear people say how much more daylight they'll have after the time change... And they look at me funny when I point out that they get the SAME amount of light.... I think it sux... they survived all those years without and working with the light they had.. and now this....and it's a LOOOONNNNNGGGG time till I retire....

 

[slowrev]

I suspect it is really all about business and profit. The more daylight people have after work the more money they will spend.
Ben

 

[nobull1]

Everyone has there own good reasons for daylight savings or not. Myself I would like to have daylight savings all year long. It just seems to be a longer/happier day when you come home at supper time and it is still light out. You can go out after supper and work for a couple of hours. The downfall is it is dark until later in the morning, which I could care less about. With regular time in the winter it is dark when you go to work, and it is dark when you come home. No wonder people are so depressed in the winter. All this is also relevant to where you live as well.I would like to see the time stay at one or the other regardless though.

 

[Bird]

It just seems to be a longer/happier day when you come home at supper time and it is still light out. You can go out after supper and work for a couple of hours.

When I was a kid, you sure didn't go out after supper, simply because you were not allowed to come in for supper until it got dark. Dad said you could work outside as long as there was light. It sure did make some kids love winter time.

 

[WayneB]

Way back when and I am sure Bird remembers this most houses had two clocks, one in the kitchen to tell when to start the meals and one in the bedroom to wake us in the morning.

I just took a look around our kitchen and there is five appliances out there with clocks, then in the television area there are four components that have green LED clocks (two blinking) and then there is a computer clock and we also have two old analog clocks in the same area.

Now that is a bunch of time keeping going on. I am sure we will all make it thorugh the multiple changes and for one thing it will give us something to talk about.

Wayne

 

[Bird]

Yep, Wayne, an alarm clock in the bedroom was a necessity; all others were luxuries only, and at our house we didn't even know what luxuries were. And of course you had to remember to wind up that clock in the bedroom each day. And you have more appliances with clocks now that we do. We just have three appliances in the kitchen with clocks, plus a battery powered clock on the wall. Of course now it's a clock/radio in the bedroom and on the rare occasions that we've used the alarm feature, I've had to get the manual out to see how to set it. One VCR clock (the other VCR died last week), 2 vehicles with clocks that work (remember back when, if your car had a clock, it probably didn't work), two cell phones with the date and time, one battery powered clock in the shop, a wrist watch, a computer, and the clock in the attached picture. A cousin bought that for me as a retirement gift 18 years ago. It's a replica of my badge and was made by a retired officer.