Time warp in the heartland.Giving someone the time of day can be confusing con·fuse v. con·fused, con·fus·ing, con·fus·es v.tr. 1. a. To cause to be unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding; throw off. b. if you live in Indiana Indiana, state, United States Indiana, midwestern state in the N central United States. It is bordered by Lake Michigan and the state of Michigan (N), Ohio (E), Kentucky, across the Ohio R. (S), and Illinois (W). . Host of the state's 92 counties are on Eastern time--except for the 10 counties that prefer Central. time. And most of Indiana never goes on daylight saving time daylight saving time (DST), time observed when clocks and other timepieces are set ahead so that the sun will rise and set later in the day as measured by civil time. , a refusal that dates back 30 years to the complaints of farmers and drive-in movie owners. Of course, there are exceptions: The 10 counties on Central. time spring forward and fall back with the rest of the nation, as do a few other counties near Louisville, Ky., and Cincinnati, Ohio “Cincinnati” redirects here. For other uses, see Cincinnati (disambiguation). Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. . State officials have decided that art of Indiana will go on daylight saving time starting this April., setting off a new debate over the problem of having two time zones in one state. Now, 17 counties have petitioned to switch over to Central time. "You never know what time it is around here, and it Looks to me now as though we may never know," says Betty Richards Rich·ards , Dickinson Woodruff 1895-1973. American physician. He shared a 1956 Nobel Prize for developing cardiac catheterization. , an Indiana resident who wishes the entire state would settle on one time zone. "I want to be able to go somewhere at 8 o'clock and have it be 8 o'clock where I'm going. Is that too much to ask?" |
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