Where did the time go?

The concept of time has always fasinated me for the following reasons:

Marge McLain, the postmaster on the Indiana side of the border, works about 50 steps away from Illinois, and she knows that she and her husband should leave home at 9 a.m. to get to 8:30 church in Danville, Ill., which is in the Central time zone. That routine changes every April because Illinois goes on daylight time while this section of Indiana does not, leaving Illinois and this section of Indiana with the same time--for seven months.

The background on this is that the overwhelming majority of counties --77-- in Indiana operate on Eastern time and don't go on daylight time. Ten counties--five near Chicago and five near Evansville--are in the Central zone and adopt daylight time. And two counties near Cincinnati and three near Louisville are in the Eastern zone and adopt daylight time.

So to clear up the ongoing confusion once and for all abt what time it is, the Indiana House is now considering to put to a vote whether or not to put the state on Daylight Savings Time.