Clocks wind forward for 1st time smoothly

With 47 members, the "Anti-Daylight Savings Timers" Facebook group proclaims, "This is for all the rebels who refuse to change their clocks since Indiana passed the Daylight Savings Time Bill."\nDespite this opposition, most students seemed to have weathered the Sunday morning switch to daylight-saving time by Sunday afternoon. Likewise, many Bloomington retailers reminded employees to "spring forward" and saw little tardiness Sunday.\nFreshman Shannon Beaty was still adjusting to having light later in the evening Sunday night. \n"Right now I'm looking outside and the clock says 7 p.m., and I'm thinking it's July," she said. \nBeaty, who is from Angola, Ind., never observed daylight-saving time and wondered why Indiana is doing it now after not observing DST for more than 30 years. She said she believes not observing a time change made Indiana unique.\nSophomore Mike Hughes changed his clocks Sunday evening and said he did not like it one bit.\n"I've lived in Indiana all my life, and I haven't had to change my clocks all my life," said the Indianapolis-native Hughes. "It's a pain in the ass."\nFreshman Britt Nielsen relied on her roommate to change the clocks in her residence hall room, but said she will likely have to haul out the manual to change the clock in her car. "It's not something I grew up with," she said. "It's weird to me. It makes no sense."\nBut Nielsen, like most other students, said despite her opposition, she will be ready for classes this week and didn't anticipate being late Monday.\n"I'll get used to it," said Nielsen, who is from Middlebury, Ind. "I just don't like it."\nManagers at Bloomington businesses made sure to educate their employees about the time shift and saw little mix-up as a result.\nEric Linder, the customer service manager at the Kroger on 1175 S. College Mall Rd., said Kroger employees were reminded about "springing forward" for weeks and the change went off without a hitch.\nBenita Corbin, the co-manager of the Marsh at 2424 S. Walnut St., said only one employee arrived for work late.\nJunior Kyle King, who grew up in Fort Branch, Ind., said he is used to the spring time change. But he laments that his hometown, which is in a part of southwest Indiana that stayed in the Central time zone with its Kentucky and Illinois neighbors, is now one hour behind Bloomington year-round.\n"A lot of people feel like they've been robbed of an hour of sleep," he said. "I'm just like, 'Get used to it.' I just wish that the whole state could be on the same time"