It never fails. The drama also is playing out in Indiana's Harrison, Clark and Floyd counties, which border and follow the Eastern Daylight Time change of Louisville. Similarly, five counties in southeastern Indiana and five more near Chicago do the biannual time change to stick with the Central Daylight and Central Standard times of Illinois. Although the entire state of Indiana is officially on standard time, changing not at all, this sprinkling of border counties are allowed to declare themselves exempt. Switzerland County, just west of Ohio County, is an odd conglomeration of clocks set any which way.
People adjust their personal timing to the places where they study or work.
The changes can wreak havoc on personal and professional lives. Driving along the Ohio River in Indiana is an exercise in time travel, with sometimes disastrous results. Ohio County Deputy Clerk Kathryn Haines says people who get traffic tickets while passing through the fast time zone often get confused when they come back to face the charges. They get another date and they have to come back again. When Mike and Dareen Seipel began teaching at schools near their Randolph Township, Ohio County, home, they never dreamed they would be working such, well, different hours.