Amish not in unison on concept of daylight-saving time
Amish not in unison on concept of daylight-saving time: "Amish not in unison on concept of daylight-saving time
Associated Press
Apr. 4, 2005 08:40 AM
MIDDLEFIELD, Ohio - Not so fast! Some members of northeast Ohio's Amish community are among the remaining holdouts to daylight-saving time, refusing to move their clocks forward an hour when standard time ended.
The change to daylight-saving time left the Amish in northeast Ohio on two times. Those who spring ahead an hour -- along with most of the rest of the nation -- are said to be on 'fast time.' Those who don't change live on what's called 'slow time.'
One Amish bishop says, 'We've always lived on this time, and there's no reason to change.'
But a farmer who made the switch, and didn't want his name used, says, 'There's good and bad with it. But it does make life easier in some ways.'
He says there's 'a lot less figuring' when you make the change. "
Associated Press
Apr. 4, 2005 08:40 AM
MIDDLEFIELD, Ohio - Not so fast! Some members of northeast Ohio's Amish community are among the remaining holdouts to daylight-saving time, refusing to move their clocks forward an hour when standard time ended.
The change to daylight-saving time left the Amish in northeast Ohio on two times. Those who spring ahead an hour -- along with most of the rest of the nation -- are said to be on 'fast time.' Those who don't change live on what's called 'slow time.'
One Amish bishop says, 'We've always lived on this time, and there's no reason to change.'
But a farmer who made the switch, and didn't want his name used, says, 'There's good and bad with it. But it does make life easier in some ways.'
He says there's 'a lot less figuring' when you make the change. "
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