Bars not affected by time switch Sunday

When Sunday morning rolls around and tired students prepare to turn their clocks ahead one hour at 2 a.m. for daylight-saving time, the bars and taverns in Indiana will stay open until 3 a.m. before springing forward.\nThe bars will remain open until 3 a.m. and then change to the appropriate daylight time.\nGov. Mitch Daniels said the bars will stay open an extra hour Sunday until 3 a.m., regardless of daylight saving time. \nThis rule allows the bars to stay open for an hour that normally would be used for business if daylight-saving time did not occur.\n“The bars can stay open the normal hours and we won’t have to shift the time,” said Brad Klopfenstein, executive director for the Indiana Licensed Beverage Association.\nKlopfenstein said business will be normal Sunday morning for all the bars. He said since bars are small businesses, an hour lost between 2 and 3 a.m. is a significant difference.\nIf the bars were to close an hour earlier than normal, about $250,000 would be lost, Klopfenstein said.\n“We think this is good for business,” he said. “It keeps the bars on the normal revenue flow.”\nKilroy’s Sports Bar manager Mike Brown said he doesn’t think daylight-saving time will affect business because “everyone knows when the bar is closing and to get the drinks before it closes.”\nJake’s Nightclub will be closed from March 9 until March 18, honoring IU’s spring-break schedule, unaffected by the daylight-saving time switch.\nJunior Brittany Tourville said she thinks this rule for the time change makes sense for the bars.\nMost people, she said, will probably be drunk, so they won’t realize daylight-saving time is in effect.\nEven though he doesn’t drink alcohol, junior Ryan Allison said he thinks people will adapt to the time change and accept it as it comes.\nAllison said that regardless of whether the bar closed early for daylight-saving time or stayed open later, people would still be aware of the closing time and be sure to grab drinks beforehand.\nFor Nick’s English Hut, the same mentality applies.\n“We don’t think much of it one way or another – it’s just the fact of daylight-saving time,” Nick’s front bartender Carey Pittman said.\n“The one night when they change gives us the same hour if there wasn’t daylight-saving time. It doesn’t affect us. Instead, it gives us the same amount of hours if there was no daylight-saving time.”