Spring Forward This Sunday
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
After 34 years of letting the clocks run, Indiana residents will move timepieces forward one hour Sunday and back one hour in October.
Kosciusko County and 76 other counties return to daylight-saving time at 2 a.m. April 2.
Most folks will fiddle with their clocks April Fool's eve, before turning in for the night, to enjoy an extra hour of shuteye.
This change was established a year ago when the Indiana legislature passed a law to observe DST.
Several counties battled over whether to observe Eastern or Central time and petitioned the U.S. Department of Transportation to stay on the same time as nearby metropolitan areas.
But the whole state moves to daylight-saving time Sunday.
From 1972 to 2006, 77 of the state's 92 counties were in the Eastern Time Zone and did not change to daylight time in April. Instead, they remained on standard time, except a few counties near Chicago and a few southern counties, which observed the Central Time Zone and used standard and daylight time.
Bills proposing the switch to DST failed more than two dozen times in the last 30 years until it barely passed in April 2005.
Four months after Indiana passed the DST bill, the U.S. Congress passed an energy bill to extend DST by about a month. Beginning in 2007, DST begins the second Sunday of March and ends the first Sunday of November. [[In-content Ad]]
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After 34 years of letting the clocks run, Indiana residents will move timepieces forward one hour Sunday and back one hour in October.
Kosciusko County and 76 other counties return to daylight-saving time at 2 a.m. April 2.
Most folks will fiddle with their clocks April Fool's eve, before turning in for the night, to enjoy an extra hour of shuteye.
This change was established a year ago when the Indiana legislature passed a law to observe DST.
Several counties battled over whether to observe Eastern or Central time and petitioned the U.S. Department of Transportation to stay on the same time as nearby metropolitan areas.
But the whole state moves to daylight-saving time Sunday.
From 1972 to 2006, 77 of the state's 92 counties were in the Eastern Time Zone and did not change to daylight time in April. Instead, they remained on standard time, except a few counties near Chicago and a few southern counties, which observed the Central Time Zone and used standard and daylight time.
Bills proposing the switch to DST failed more than two dozen times in the last 30 years until it barely passed in April 2005.
Four months after Indiana passed the DST bill, the U.S. Congress passed an energy bill to extend DST by about a month. Beginning in 2007, DST begins the second Sunday of March and ends the first Sunday of November. [[In-content Ad]]