Set your clocks back tonight

[Geowhizzer]

Just in case you forgot- tonight's the end of Daylight Savings Time.

[hbionic]

...and we pray!

[Diomedes]

How could I forget an extra hour before last call?  It's a holiday in my world.

[EJ72]

I'm going to enjoy our last night of not falling back. We live by South Bend in Indiana and don't observe DST until next year. Our newly elected governor decided it's time to, so now we'll begin observing it in the spring. They haven't even decided what dang time zone we're going to be in here, central or eastern.

It's taken me seven years to get used to being on the same time as family I have back in NJ during the fall and winter and an hour behind the rest of the year. Now I have to get back to changing clocks ahead or back again.

Mitch Daniels, you republican !

[General_Failure]

Stupid farmers.

[EJ72]

Shoot, the farmers in Indiana are smarter than 75% of the politicians.

[Geowhizzer]

Got to blame the railroads for having time zones in the first place.  Because of the need for consistent scheduling of the trains so that people would know when the trains would arrive (obviously this was before SEPTA), and in order to eliminate confusions that could cause collisions, U.S. railroad companies established time zones in 1883.  It was not incorporated into U.S. law until World War I, at the same time that Daylight Savings Time was first introduced.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has authority over time zones.

Wikipedia Article on Time Zones

History of Time Zones in the U.S.

In somewhat related news, some in Maine want to leave the Eastern Time Zone and join the Atlantic Time Zone.

[Diomedes]

[Sgt PSN]

[Geowhizzer]

Did I tell you about the time I was in... Florida?