I thought Indiana was one of the states that didn't change. I have friends from there and I'm relatively certain they said that. Maybe I'm loopy.

I love it and hate it. I love that in the morning it is now light out and I have more incentive to get out of bed. I hate that by the time I pick up the girls from ballet it's already pitch black out.

And no extra sleep here - since it was Halloween and we were partying at some friends' we decided to just party an extra hour.

Mommy4Jesus, I don't know how it would save energy costs either. The website didn't say and I certainly wouldn't be able to figure it out. LOL!

Pretty-In-Pink, I remembered that the website I quoted from had something to say about Indiana. So, I went back to the site. Here's what they said:

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Until April 2005, when Indiana passed a law agreeing to observe daylight saving time, the Hoosier state had its own unique and complex time system. Not only is the state split between two time zones, but until recently, only some parts of the state observed daylight saving time while the majority did not.

Under the old system, 77 of the state's 92 counties were in the Eastern Time Zone but did not change to daylight time in April. Instead they remained on standard time all year. That is, except for two counties near Cincinnati, Ohio, and Louisville, Ky., which did use daylight time.

But the counties in the northwest corner of the state (near Chicago) and the southwestern tip (near Evansville), which are in the Central Time Zone, used both standard and daylight time.

The battle between the old system and DST was contentious and hard-won—bills proposing DST had failed more than two dozen times until finally squeaking through the state legislature in April 2005. As of April 2, 2006, the entire state of Indiana joined 47 other states in observing Daylight Saving Time. But it wasn't quite as simple and straightforward as all that—telling time in Indiana remains something of a bewildering experience: eighteen counties now observed Central Daylight Time and the remaining 74 counties of Indiana observe Eastern Daylight Time.
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Wow, sounds like a complicated mess. I certainly am no expert in DST at all....I just found a good website. Here it is, in case anyone wants to read more:
http://www.ask.com/bar?q=what+states+don%27t+follow+daylight+savings+time&page=1&qsrc=0&dm=all&ab=0&title=Daylight+Saving+Time+%E2%80%94+Infoplease.com&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infoplease.com%2Fspot%2Fdaylight1.html&sg=21OMtjGKbPoU6JubhloVZW9p7CBHcRRYswBxJS3vY74%3D&tsp=1257226231760

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I wish they would pick one and stay. Did you know that when they change it like now that the number of car wrecks increases in the afternoon commutes?
My brother loves the no change in Arizona - I'm envious. I use to enjoy the fall change and hate the spring - now I just want it left alone. It messes me up for about a month.

I think they should just leave the clocks alone everywhere. In AZ I guess it's a heat thing. Like who cares when it's 100 most of the time? But who cares, really? I don't see that it does much good, does it?

I can never figure out who's time is what, because sometimes we're mountain, sometimes we're pacific. Sometimes "mom" is two hours, sometimes 1, same with trying to call the east coast. No matter what, I'm always "off". Then there's the clocks you buy now that do it automatically, especially if the power goes out and it reseats to daylight savings time and I had already turned that "option" off. Sheesh!