daylight savings time help

I need to answer this. 

(1) what time zone am I in, (its Eastern Standard Time)

(2) do I change my clocks and if so what time zone am I in then?

I thought the zone never changed.  I am and will always be in the Eastern Standard Time zone.  But, where I live, we ""observe"" Daylight Savings Time.  Not everyone in the EST zone observes it, right?

Am I correct? 

thanks.

From March 9, 2008 to November 2, 2008, Ohio observes daylight savings time and is in the Eastern Daylight Time Zone. For the rest of the year, it is called the Eastern Standard Time Zone. All of the Eastern Standard/Eastern Daylight Time Zone observes daylight savings time. On November 2, you will set your clock back an hour ("fall back"), while next spring you will set it forward an hour("spring forward").

You are currently in EDT. Eastern Daylight Savings Time. When you change the clocks this fall you'll be back in EST.

The time change this year is on Sunday, Nov. 2, at 2:00 AM. At 2:00 AM it becomes 1:00 AM. The time change used to occur the last week of October, and about mid April. They changed it to the first weekend in November and the last weekend in March.

You're right, not all of the EST observes EDT. I believe the only state that doesn't observe EDT is parts of Indiana. Indianapolis observes EDT and the portion around Gary, Ind. But that portion may be a part of CST (Central Standard Time which does observe daylight savings because it it so close to Chicago.

All of Indiana used to NOT observe EDT. They said it was because the farmers didn't want to change. The residents of Indianapolis and the businesses there wanted to observe it. They tried many times to get the state to observe it. It has only been fairly recently that Indianapolis has observed EDT.

I believe the only other state that does not observe daylight savings times is Arizona.

Emily    thanks, I needed this for work  :)

thank you, Moonikins.

I just had to see if I was right about Indiana. They did go to all daylight saving, but not until 2005, which is after I left the area. Here's an interesting blurb about Indiana.

The Dawning of DST in Indiana

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.

time here you go this will answer it for you :)

a useful link US time zone

Original Post by moonikins:

I believe the only other state that does not observe daylight savings times is Arizona.

 Hawaii does not observe DST, either.  (I believe it is because they are closer to the equator)

BTW: Having lived in Indiana for all but 4 years of my life, I would have to say that it is much better w/o DST - IMO... 

Yep we Arizonans don't change times we just change time zones.  Techinically we are in Mountain time zone, but in the summer we actually are pacific- that really makes for fun when your family lives on the other side of the country

you guys are the greatest.  My memo at work had a deadline of today for answering this question and thanks to you, I was able to.

(I used to live in Indiana and thought that confusion was just normal for all states)    :)

I lived on the Indiana/Michigan border. I was very close to the part of Indiana that was on central time as well as South Bend which was on eastern time but did not observe daylight time. My dentist was in South Bend, and I had a doctor for my son who was in the central time area. Making appointments was crazy.

I love that website that andie-joe posted the link to in #6. I use it when ever I want to know what time it is somewhere else. It's also great for figuring days to birthdays, when you're so many days old, etc. Lots of fun.

I don't like changing the clocks. We lived in Western Australia for several years and they didn't change although the other states did. They are on a trial period right now using Daylight Savings time and most people don't like it!

Hooray for Hawaii, Arizona and Indiana :)

I am a big propoent of daylight saving time. Did you know that it has been proven that daylight saving time saves energy and reduces the number of car accidents? Even though it may be darker in the morning, people are generally more alert in the morning so the morning darkness does not contribute to as many accidents.

I'd like to see daylight saving time be extended to year round.

 

Heh.  Given that daylight savings time was initially instituted to help trains run on time, can't imagine there was much incentive in Hawa'ii to implement it. :D