Time for a Change?
Lafayette! With all due respect to Purdue University, does Peterson expect denizens of our world-class metropolis to look to Lafayette, Indiana, as an example? And what about Wall Street? we said next. Thanks to the one-hour difference between Chicago and New York, the Sun-Times is able to squeeze the closing stock prices into its late-afternoon edition. Lose that hour . . .
An architect in Forest Park, Peterson is director of the Midwest Daylight Coalition, although when we asked him what the coalition consists of he conceded that “right now this is basically a committee to start the coalition.” He intends the coalition to involve major business interests. The committee consists of friends and relatives whose grousing about bleak winters and early dusks led a year ago to formation of the Half Hour Time Zone Lobby.
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“It’s just a radical idea,” he explained. “Most people don’t even understand time zones have only been around 100 years.”
How long till one clock ticks for America?
“There’s a whole lot of unanswered questions which more research and more feedback will help us define,” said Peterson.
