Daniels echoes time zone alarm - indystar.com
This is awesome. Thanks Mary Beth Schneider for calling him out.
Daniels said moving Indiana to daylight-saving time "was the only (position) I advocated in the campaign and in the legislature. Choice of time zones, I think, is the definitively local issue."
Asked if he hadn't advocated Central time in his campaign, Daniels said: "Pardon me, but I did not."
In a meeting with The Indianapolis Star editorial board in February 2004, however, Daniels was asked about moving the state to the Central time zone.
Daniels answered: "My number one goal would be to see us all -- or as many of us as possible -- on the same time. Why Central time? It's geographically more sensible."
And in a Lake County appearance that same month, Daniels said: "For Pete's sake, let's get all of our state on the same time, preferably Northwest Indiana time."
Daniels said Friday that while that might be preferable, the "luck of longitude" means Indiana will always be in two time zones. Establishing daylight-saving time would at least keep counties in synch with Chicago and New York, he said.
2 comments:
Before I get into my DST rant, I'd like to poke a little fun at my trashCan Mitch.
Perhaps we can ship him up US 31 in his beloved RV-1. We'll park the RV right on the St Joseph/Elkhart county line. Half of the trailer in one county and half in the other. This will solve a few problems.
# end a debate over if he and Cherie should move in the govenors mansion. She can stay down here and plan her 2 million dollar McMansion in Hamilton county while Mitch camps out up north.
# Keep the seat of Indiana government in both time zones. Clocks will be posted at both ends of the trailer so Mitch knows what time of day it is in the entire state.
# Keep Mitch out of Indianapolis and the state house. The more time he spends up there eating pork tenderloins and gabbing in his fake "hoosier" accent the less damage he can do down here.
Still, I'm all for DST. In this era of globalization the more standardized we become in area like the time of day the better of we are. Someday we might even start using the metric system and abandon a mideaval measurement method based on the length of a kings foot.
The only other countries not using the metric system are Liberia and Myanmar. We may not want to switch over to what the rest of the world is using at the risk of these key allies.
Joel, Joel, Joel...
The Metric system? Now why would us simpletons want to switch to what them furriners use?
Change is bad M'Kay.
Globalization is bad M'Kay.
The Metric system is bad M'Kay.
DST is bad M'Kay.
Mitch is bad M'Kay.
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