# All you ever wanted to know about Daylight Saving Time, and more! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 24, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-daylight-saving-time-and-more/327704 "2005-10-24T18:45:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-daylight-saving-time-and-more/327704/1 "2005-10-24T18:45:10Z")
[Linky.](http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html) The idea of daylight saving was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin. The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight Saving **S** Time. Patrons of bars that stay open past 2 a.m. lose one hour of drinking time on the day when daylight saving time springs forward one hour. This has led to annual problems in numerous locations, and sometimes even to riots. For example, at a “time disturbance” in Athens, Ohio, site of Ohio University, over one thousand students and other late night partiers chanted “Freedom” as they threw liquor bottles at the police attempting to control the riot. Indiana, one of only three U.S. states that does not use daylight saving time, has long been a continuing hotbed of DST controversy, up to the present day. The state’s two western corners, which fall in the Central Time Zone, observe DST, while the remainder of the state, in the Eastern Time Zone, follows year-round standard time. An additional complication is that five southeastern counties near Cincinnati and Louisville unofficially observe DST to keep in sync with those cities. Because of the longstanding feuds over DST, Indiana politicians often treat the subject gingerly. In 1996, gubernatorial candidate Rex Early firmly declared, “Some of my friends are for putting all of Indiana on daylight saving time. Some are against it. And I always try to support my friends.” Interesting site. ---
**Author:** ![Meaty\_Beaty\_Big\_and\_Bouncy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Meaty\_Beaty\_Big\_and\_Bouncy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meaty_Beaty_Big_and_Bouncy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-daylight-saving-time-and-more/327704/2 "2005-10-24T19:33:11Z")
We don’t go on Daylight time Like they do everywhere It’s kind of confusing But I guess the cows don’t care It’s four o’clock in New York It’s one o’clock in LA But here in Indiana It’s probably yesterday It’s a Hoosier thing, you wouldn’t understand Unless you are a Hoosier, living in Hoosierland Who needs daylight savings time Here it’s 1959 Everybody sing It’s a Hoosier thing ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-daylight-saving-time-and-more/327704/3 "2005-10-24T19:58:53Z")
Do we set the clocks back this Sunday (10/30), or has that changed? I seem to remember some buzz about how a new law has been passed. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-daylight-saving-time-and-more/327704/4 "2005-10-24T20:07:32Z")
**tdn** , according to Wikipedia, that new law goes into effect in 2007. Status quo for now. > **[Daylight saving time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time)** > > Daylight saving time (DST), also known as daylight savings time or daylight time (the United States and Canada), and summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and some others), is the practice of advancing clocks (typically by one hour) during warmer months so that darkness falls at a later clock time. The typical implementation of DST is to set clocks forward by one hour in the spring ("spring forward") and set clocks back by one hour in autumn ("fall back") to return to standard time. As a... (scroll about halfway down) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-daylight-saving-time-and-more/327704/5 "2005-10-24T20:26:31Z")
Ah, that’s it. Thanks. Hmm, that means that every 7 years (on average) I’ll get a 25 hour long birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-daylight-saving-time-and-more/327704/6 "2005-10-24T20:32:45Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Do we set the clocks back this Sunday (10/30), or has that changed? I seem to remember some buzz about how a new law has been passed. There’s a chart on the linked site for the next few years. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-daylight-saving-time-and-more/327704/7 "2005-10-24T21:25:43Z")
Indiana’s law has been changed, but nothing is set in concrete yet. As near as I can figure, the whole state will be on DST sometime in 2006, however… The US Dept. of Trans., not the state, has the authority to make such changes. Some counties have arranged to have hearings with the DOT to express their preference for eastern or central time. Will a given county go with EDT or CDT? Nobody seems to know yet.