Sign up to receive updates when articles like this are published. Sign up to receive alerts when articles like this are published. Not Indiana, where a traditional agricultural economy and a stubborn independence streak have kept daylight saving time at bay for decades. But now that may be changing, with farmers and other traditional daylight saving opponents losing ground to the avatars of the high-tech economy. Leaders of technology companies and others say they are tired of outsiders being thrown into chronic confusion over where the little hand is on an Indiana clock.
Many families keep time both ways, unable to synchronize their watches.
Now, the Indiana Legislature is considering a bill that would adopt daylight saving time statewide. Wall Street and Silicon Valley investors never know what time it is. Gov. Frank L. O'Bannon, a Democrat, surprised everyone this month by endorsing this political hot potato with a split-second mention in his State of the State address. In 1995, he gummed things up with a joke amendment, proposing Indiana set its clocks half an hour ahead. This year, Mr. Mangus said, he will propose amendments to ''let each county council decide what time they want'' and another to restrict daylight saving time to the Indianapolis area. ''The best way to hurt bills is to introduce something obnoxious,'' he said.