I Still Don't Know What Time It Is

At least something has been clarified today, when it comes to the "what time is it in Indiana" question that is. A place harder to set a watch in than the jungles of the deep Amazon.

Seems the state decided to follow daylight savings time this year, which takes away some of the confusion anyway, maybe. What time zone is it in?

Many Indiana residents have never changed their clocks. Under state law, most of Indiana has ignored daylight-saving time since the early 1970s.
The result has been a patchwork of time zones, with 77 counties observing Eastern time but not changing clocks; five on Eastern time unofficially observing daylight-saving time; and 10 on Central time that observed daylight-saving time.

But the shift to daylight savings time, coupled with a U.S. Transportation Department decision allowing eight of the state's 92 counties to change to the Central time zone, has left many in this state confused and uneasy.

So they are a no-mans land between the eastern and central times, I'm picturing hordes of bandits, Genghis Khan. I guess you could always find a place that's open to get beer there, if you wanted to.

I think it says someting about a state when they are expending this much energy trying to figure out what time it is. When do they tackle the tougher issues, even if they had the time, they would have trouble figuring out what time the meeting is, as it seems to vary by which side of the street the building is on.

The Indianapolis 500 changed its start time to 1 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, but tickets mailed for the race say it begins at noon Eastern Standard Time. And businesses statewide are scrambling to reset computer clocks, which had been specially programmed for "Indiana time."

This is like Indiana's y2k.

Instead of resolving the matter, the vote created a new debate over which time zone Indiana should observe. Eighteen counties asked the Transportation Department to put them in the Central time zone to be aligned with Chicago. The government granted the requests for eight counties, putting a total of 18 on Central time and 74 on Eastern. In Pulaski County, the switch to Central might be in name only.

Starting next week, it is changing the work hours for most county employees from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST to 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. CDT. Others in the county, such as Pulaski Memorial Hospital, plan to observe Eastern time.

Ok, now you're killing me, really. Get over to central time, you're off the team. I'll simply pass through on my way to Chicago, I'm not good enough at math to risk stopping. Besides, is there some type of confusing exchange rate, like a dollar = 1.327 I-dollars.

Might there be two, or more Indianas in the future?