Is there a city in Indiana that is changing time by 2 hours on March 10?

Question

I thought I heard that there was a city in Indiana that was having to change time by 2 hours for daylight savings time. If this is true, why?

Answer 1

Hi Sarah!

OC is right. It's Pulaski County, Indiana, Pop. 14,000 in which the largest community is Winamac. It will officially switch from Central to Eastern Time.

Here's what happened:

Pulaski Co. is 75 miles SE of Chicago. Although its connections are more with north-central Indiana than with the Calumet suburbs of Chicago, federal government bureaucrats decided to place it in Central Time, with Chicagoland. Local people protested, but the US Secretary of Transportation gets the final word, and Pulaski was put on Central Time.

Remember that Pulaski had always been in the Eastern Time zone before Indiana adopted Daylight Saving Time last year.

Locals bucked. Businesses and even government offices told their employees to come in for work at 7:00 a.m. "Central Time," which of course is 8 Eastern, the same time as previously.

This year, the Secretary of Transportation finally saw the light and redrew the time zone boundary effective tomorrow, Sunday March 11th. Any clocks that are still set to Central Standard Time will change to Eastern Daylight, technically a two-hour switch. In fact, though, most people have already made the change. The practical effect for most will be a one-hour time change, like every place else.

Answer 2

Yeah. Pulaski County has been on central time and is moving to the eastern time zone, which means they will move ahead 2 hours.