Some of those who voted YES had this to say:
• Yes, Because it’s a different like country
• Yes, the simplest of reason, "productivity" More daylight, more working hours.
• Yes, India being a huge country, East, Central and west India should all have different time zones.
• Yes, definitely. Some countries even have more than two time zones. The issue of time is not about whether it is one country or not, it is pure science and geographical location. There is a lot of differences in the degrees of location between Delhi and Kohima and so for all practical reasons there should be a different time zone for not only Nagaland but for the entire northeast. This will make northeast more efficient. It does not make any logical reason to prepone the working hours. This will not change anything. But what will change the working culture is to have a different time zone for Nagaland.
• Yes, Where as in Delhi it gets darker around 8pm. In nagaland it gets dark by 6pm (in summer) theres lot of difference as we see.
• Sun rises at 4.30 am in Nagaland...n office or school timing is 8.30 or 9 or 10 am...so just imagine d amount of hours we lose...its 4 hours....changing office timing wouldn’t solve this problem...high time we have a separate time zone
• Yes, because of distance between Delhi and Kohima
• Yes. It is better to have one different from Delhi standard time. Geographically we fall far away from Delhi time zone and having of our own fit for our country would be helpful in many aspects as Gogoi had already pointed out. If we also gather the facts, I guess, there will be some huge crores lost from our economy.
• Having a separate time zone would help. I have seen school children walking home after dark ... i.e. 4:30 -5 PM in the evening from tutions or sometimes after the exams which end at 4 PM. In most of the hill Stations in Nagaland it is already dark by that time. A separate time zone could help in conservation of electricity. Everyone would have more daylight hours to work making maximum use of the sunlight. In some parts of mainland India, it is still bright even at 7 PM and people are still able to conduct business and even children roam about freely unlike in Nagaland where everything sort of goes to sleep after the sun comes down.
• Yes, Would welcome a separate time zone for the # Northeastindia this would help in productivity and also consumption of electricity amongst a host of other positives.....
Some of those who voted NO had this to say:
• No, first of all, the poll question itself should be how many of us are aware of timezone? Therefore, I feel that we should just focus on simple day to day issue. How about development for starters.
• Instead of a New Time Zone ahead of Indian Standard Time, It is better to schedule the working hours by one hour; for Instance, Office hours can scheduled to 8:00 am instead of the usual 9:30 am or 10 am. Otherwise, Imagine the sun rising by 3:00am in summer and sun setting by 3:00pm in winter. It is going to create total confusion instead of saving time. scientifically New Time Zone is possible, but it will have negative impact on the everyday social and physiological activities. If New Standard Time is expected to save Electricity and Energy..I think Its just Bogus claim as Nagaland is famous for power cuts and load shedding; having New Time Zone does not mean Electricity consumption and demand will decrease, in fact, It will increase. What we need is Time Management, not a New Time Zone.
• I don't prefer changes which isn't productive, so the present time zone is fine with me.
• No need of different time zone it won't bear fruit. Nothing is different only say mix 30 mts different in the morning/sunrise, yes in fact evening/sunset is different.
• Nope. I don't see any real benefits... be it having a different time zone or following Daylight saving. All I see is a lot of confused people. Just change the timings of the offices/institutions, etc. That'll be much simpler. And I don't know about other states but in Nagaland we use the cliched Indian S T R E T C H A B L E Time.
• Never, it will only confuse ordinary people like me, neither it is going to benefit us in any way. Let us just be conservative as a unique Indian as far as time zone is concerned.
• Yes, Because it’s a different like country
• Yes, the simplest of reason, "productivity" More daylight, more working hours.
• Yes, India being a huge country, East, Central and west India should all have different time zones.
• Yes, definitely. Some countries even have more than two time zones. The issue of time is not about whether it is one country or not, it is pure science and geographical location. There is a lot of differences in the degrees of location between Delhi and Kohima and so for all practical reasons there should be a different time zone for not only Nagaland but for the entire northeast. This will make northeast more efficient. It does not make any logical reason to prepone the working hours. This will not change anything. But what will change the working culture is to have a different time zone for Nagaland.
• Yes, Where as in Delhi it gets darker around 8pm. In nagaland it gets dark by 6pm (in summer) theres lot of difference as we see.
• Sun rises at 4.30 am in Nagaland...n office or school timing is 8.30 or 9 or 10 am...so just imagine d amount of hours we lose...its 4 hours....changing office timing wouldn’t solve this problem...high time we have a separate time zone
• Yes, because of distance between Delhi and Kohima
• Yes. It is better to have one different from Delhi standard time. Geographically we fall far away from Delhi time zone and having of our own fit for our country would be helpful in many aspects as Gogoi had already pointed out. If we also gather the facts, I guess, there will be some huge crores lost from our economy.
• Having a separate time zone would help. I have seen school children walking home after dark ... i.e. 4:30 -5 PM in the evening from tutions or sometimes after the exams which end at 4 PM. In most of the hill Stations in Nagaland it is already dark by that time. A separate time zone could help in conservation of electricity. Everyone would have more daylight hours to work making maximum use of the sunlight. In some parts of mainland India, it is still bright even at 7 PM and people are still able to conduct business and even children roam about freely unlike in Nagaland where everything sort of goes to sleep after the sun comes down.
• Yes, Would welcome a separate time zone for the # Northeastindia this would help in productivity and also consumption of electricity amongst a host of other positives.....
Some of those who voted NO had this to say:
• No, first of all, the poll question itself should be how many of us are aware of timezone? Therefore, I feel that we should just focus on simple day to day issue. How about development for starters.
• Instead of a New Time Zone ahead of Indian Standard Time, It is better to schedule the working hours by one hour; for Instance, Office hours can scheduled to 8:00 am instead of the usual 9:30 am or 10 am. Otherwise, Imagine the sun rising by 3:00am in summer and sun setting by 3:00pm in winter. It is going to create total confusion instead of saving time. scientifically New Time Zone is possible, but it will have negative impact on the everyday social and physiological activities. If New Standard Time is expected to save Electricity and Energy..I think Its just Bogus claim as Nagaland is famous for power cuts and load shedding; having New Time Zone does not mean Electricity consumption and demand will decrease, in fact, It will increase. What we need is Time Management, not a New Time Zone.
• I don't prefer changes which isn't productive, so the present time zone is fine with me.
• No need of different time zone it won't bear fruit. Nothing is different only say mix 30 mts different in the morning/sunrise, yes in fact evening/sunset is different.
• Nope. I don't see any real benefits... be it having a different time zone or following Daylight saving. All I see is a lot of confused people. Just change the timings of the offices/institutions, etc. That'll be much simpler. And I don't know about other states but in Nagaland we use the cliched Indian S T R E T C H A B L E Time.
• Never, it will only confuse ordinary people like me, neither it is going to benefit us in any way. Let us just be conservative as a unique Indian as far as time zone is concerned.
Some of those who voted OTHERS had this to say:
• More practical would be for offices and schools to start earlier. Doesn't really matter having separate time zones, because our lives out here have automatically adapted to function like we are 1-2 hours ahead of their time. From our business hours and even our biological clock is tuned ahead of IST. Separate Time Zone would really be needed if office/business hours were from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM like in the cities where people are engaged in highly productive occupations. But here our offices start at 10 AM and end by 2 PM? Hahha so that would not really matter... Maybe after 10-15 years if we have a more corporate environment and working culture, separate Time Zone would make sense, but not at this point of time.
• Sorom ase itu kotha tu. First make mandatory to all employees to work 8 hours a day or suspend them and then we can talk about time zone. Matha mari laap nai if we continue this trend.
• If Assam succeeds in implementing it then the rest of the Northeast will probably all follow suit. We can probably just wait and watch our neighbour.
• By having a different time-zone we will not go from unproductive to productive suddenly, for that to happen we will need magic wands. I am of the opinion that if we can clock back 1 hour ahead it may not benefit everybody all at once but some sector of our society will definitely capitalize from it. For instance, shops& business establishments will be able to extend their closure by an hour. Similarly farmers, builders, or any kind of field works gets an extra hour, using ones imagination, travel, education, sports etc all can be redefined in a positive context. But the fact remains that even if we dont change the time zone, we get daylight ahead of delhi. So why not accept God's own timing?
