TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, April 3, 1993                   TAG: 9304030184
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: JESSICA MARTIN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium
TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE - ALMOST
Most of us sleep through the change from standard to daylight, but some can't avoid the twice-yearly time warp.
Indeed, many institutions and offices won't change their clocks until the weekend is over. Roanoke's Department of Buildings and Maintenance, in charge of setting clocks on city property, will not adjust timepieces until Monday.
Maintenance Supervisor Gene Craft said changing time on city clocks is not easy. To adjust the big clock beside Dominion Tower behind City Market takes two men, an 8-foot stepladder and at least 20 minutes.
"The clock on Salem Avenue has four faces, and we have to individually set each face. We have to be particular to get all the faces to one time."
At First Union Corp., each bank department will advance its own clocks, probably Monday, said spokeswoman Brenda McDaniel. The telephones that have clocks in them are changed electronically by a master switch, she said.
"There's no organized way to do it," she said. "I suspect that someone would say, `We need to change the clock'; but it's not an official process."
Others react to the change matter-of-factly.
Greyhound Bus Lines continues to run on the same schedule. Riley Snapp, a Greyhound employee said, "If buses run at 10 a.m. standard time, they run at 10 a.m. daylight time; and if people don't set their clocks, they'll miss their bus.
"Everyone expects it. Everyone knows what to do," he said.
But not everyone really remembers to add an hour to the clock in the spring - many forget that daylight time starts the first Sunday of April.
Willa Sink, from The Good News Church on Atherly Street Northeast, said that because daylight-saving time starts on a Sunday it affects the church's attendance. "People miss church. They forget to change their clocks. It's noticeable."
Farmers complain that their work schedule must be changed to feed their animals, who don't know what daylight time is. Night-spot owners complain they lose business because many people don't go out until it's dark.
But some, including the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, say the change is positive. The Arlington-based institute published a report this week that said an extra hour of daylight saves lives on the nation's highways and streets, especially for pedestrians.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB