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Living in 'timeless' central Indiana (where we NEVER move the clocks -- at least until the State Legislature acts to put us on Daylight Savings Time in the next couple of weeks), I've noticed that since DST took effect my posts show the time as being AN HOUR LATER than I send them!I checked my user settings, and I'm set at "GMT - 5 hours", which IS correct year round, at least for now.Am I living in a time warp, or does ZeroForum software try to apply Daylight Savings Time automagically?

Quote, originally posted by kostby »Am I living in a time warp, or does ZeroForum software try to apply Daylight Savings Time automagically?I believe so - I think a couple upgrades ago they changed the way the time zones work. In your case, you may have to go in and manually adjust your time for each time change.Let me know what works.

You'll manually have to change to central time in the spring, go back to Eastern in the fall.... A pain, but puts you in the right time all year round...

Quote, originally posted by kostby »Living in 'timeless' central Indiana (where we NEVER move the clocksSlightly off topic -It's been 20 years since we moved, but I went to elementary school and junior high in NW Indiana. Our high school was in the country, between two small towns that attended. The town that I lived in was literally on the other side of the 'time line' as the high school. That is obviously not very convenient, so they 're-drew' the line to just a few miles on the other side of the town I lived in. So, when we would have doctors appointments, etc in a larger town about 10 miles away, we'd always have to remember whether or not we were on the same time or not.That's my story, and I'm sticking to it! Oh yeah - go Rick Mount (Lebanon) and Purdue! (even though I've been away from Indiana for 20 years)

Quote, originally posted by ColonelPanic »You'll manually have to change to central time in the spring, go back to Eastern in the fall.... A pain, but puts you in the right time all year round...EZBoard's forum software must be written by someone in Indiana...it stays in standard time year round and I actually have to change the board's settings to correct the time twice a year!

lol! They didn't live here, I guess... This rogue Indiana county like mine where they defy the law that says "daylight savings time is not to be observed here!" and make us change the time...

Quote, originally posted by ColonelPanic »lol! They didn't live here, I guess... This rogue Indiana county like mine where they defy the law that says "daylight savings time is not to be observed here!" and make us change the time... wow lucky you. we don't change time and boy does it screw up T.V. monday night football and prime time T.V. starts at 9:00 P.M. news starts at 11:00 P.M. its a mess

Oh man, I never thought about the time difference in TV terms... Yes, that's gotta be a mess!

Quote, originally posted by scherry2 »wow lucky you. we don't change time and boy does it screw up T.V. monday night football and prime time T.V. starts at 9:00 P.M. news starts at 11:00 P.M. its a mess*is confused, as usual* Since not changing times puts you in the central time zone for this part of the year, wouldn't prime time TV start at 7?

Quote, originally posted by Kari »*is confused, as usual* Since not changing times puts you in the central time zone for this part of the year, wouldn't prime time TV start at 7?you would think so but as usual hoosiers can't do anything easy.A few year ago the T.V. stations in this area (northeast indiana) in the fall started the prime time at 9:00 and when everyone around us (ie, michigan, ohio) changed time in the spring we didn't and they never changed the station times back...now this DST going on in the Indiana senate, they can't make up their minds if Indiana should be NY time (eastern) or Chicago (central).so we are stuck with 9:00 prime time. thank god T.V. is a vast wasteland.

I personally think they should leave the dayum time alone! It's been this way for 100's of years, so why change it now????????? Stupid people pizz me off! (end rant)

whys indiana gotta be special just do what everyone else does.

It's not quite an issue exclusive to Indiana: parts of Arizona also do not observe DST, and Hawaii is also 'timeless'.Because the surrounding states have larger communities bordering Indiana (Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky for those who flunked geography) and more economic clout, there are only about 78 counties out of 92 that observe Eastern Standard Time year 'round ANYWAY.The 'border colonies' break away: Northwest Indiana goes with Chicago (CDT now), South Bend/Elkhart goes with Michigan (EDT now), Southeast Indiana goes with Cincinnati (EDT now). Jeffersonville goes with Louisville (EDT?), Evansville probably goes with IL (CDT?).Of course, in other parts of the world, there are timezones that begin on the 1/2 hour. Someone suggested that we be 1/2 hour ahead of Chicago and 1/2 hour behind New York! That'd REALLY fix it, right???