If Time Ain’t Broke Don’t Fix It!
Wednesday, 19 January 2005 by Jacob TomawI supported Gov. Daniels because he seemed like a good guy and my sister and brother-in-law were very supportive of him. But now I am asking what kind of Hoosier is this.
Daniels has made it a priority to make all of Indiana go on Daylight Saving Time (DST). He has been taken with the idiotic reasoning that it costs Indiana jobs. However the Indy Star had a hard time finding anyone that said it was the cause of job loss for Hoosiers.
In fact the Star found a business that has done what I thought individuals should do if it affects them so much. FedEx says that they adjust their operations by an hour so it matched the rest of the company. They go on a personal DST.
Most of what the star found was companies that have missed multi-state meetings the first weeks in and out of DST. This leads me to believe that the reason Indiana does not get jobs is not because we don?t change time zones, but because businesses here don’t use computers. Every company I have worked for has been multi-state (if not multi-national). All have used meeting scheduling software that ties into the email systems. The meeting times are translated into the time zone of the person who is invited. Another reason Hoosiers are probably missing meetings is because Hoosier’s tend to forget when DST is. If these companies would send out a memo that DST is starting or stopping in other parts of the country it would alleviate a lot of the confusion.
The Star found one trucking company that said they would not located in Indy again if they were starting out today, because the time difference costs them a lot. Apparently they have truckers who do not live in Indiana and this causes them to be late to Detroit. But if you did not live in Indiana and where delivering to someplace not in Indiana, isn’t it your own damn fault you are late. And again, I have to believe that their is software out there specifically for trucking companies that will give you the times of pickups and delivers in whatever the hell time zone you want. If there is not I encourage trucking companies to email trucking@tomaw.com and we will see about getting the work done.
I believe Gov. Daniels wants Indiana all on the same time and for all of Indiana to observe DST. This leads me to believe that he want to pull the 77 non-observant counties out of Easter Standard Time and put them in Central Time with the other 15 counties. It would be nice for me, making my family in Illiana and me on the same time. However I still think it is stupid.
All of Indiana should be on the same time that does not observe DST, and I don’t care much whether it is Eastern or Central Time. I believe this because I believe it for every state (at least those that primarily go North-South). DST is insanity.
Rally Hoosiers! Fight against the Man! Fight against Your Man Mitch!
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