Fort Wayne council backs switch to daylight-saving time

FORT WAYNE -- The City Council has unanimously approved a resolution calling for the adoption of daylight-saving time statewide.\nResistance to changing clocks leaves Indiana looking outdated, said council member Tom Henry, who sponsored the resolution.\n"Things have changed," Henry said. "The arguments people have put before us to keep things the way they are just do not hold water anymore."\nLegislators have rejected numerous attempts in the past 30 years to bring Indiana in line with the 47 states that observe daylight-saving time. Of Indiana's 92 counties, 77 are on Eastern Standard Time all year.\nBills on daylight-saving time are pending before the House Public Policy Committee.\nA group of businesses and other supporters of the change staged an intense lobbying campaign in 2001, saying the existing system made it more difficult to do business with companies elsewhere. But the proposal did not pass either chamber of the Legislature.\nAlthough the entire Fort Wayne council supported the resolution, council member Tim Pape said he was not sure a time switch would preserve or attract the thousands of jobs that some advocates estimate.\n"I don't really think this is going to be a huge business advantage for Indiana," he said