Time Is Money For Indiana Teen

High School Senior Offers $10 Clock Changes As Country Springs Forward

(CBS/AP)  An industrious teenager is hoping time is money.

Eighteen-year-old Evan Kelso is offering to change every digital clock in a customer's home or car after all of Indiana goes to daylight saving time this weekend for the first time in more than 30 years. His fee: $10.

Kelso, a senior at Bishop Luers High School, said he came up with the idea as Indiana lawmakers sniped about time zones and daylight-saving time. He said he and his father are always trying to think up new ways to make a little extra cash.

“I just kind of sat there and thought, `We got to capitalize on this,’” Kelso said.

His offer includes changing the time on microwaves, ovens, answering machines, cars, computers, watches and VCRs. For an extra $1, he'll also install new batteries.

Kelso expects the time-change predicament to affect senior citizens the most. He plans to work from Sunday into next week — which is his spring break from school.

The biggest challenge is changing VCRS.

“There are so many makes and models. God knows, they are impossible to do anyway,” Kelso said. The United States makes the switch to daylight-saving time Sunday.

The official change occurs at 2 a.m. Sunday in each time zone, and daylight-saving time ends Oct. 29.

However, daylight-saving time isn't observed in Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas.

President George W. Bush has signed a law changing the dates of daylight-saving time, effective in 2007. Then, daylight time will start three weeks earlier, March 11, and will end one week later, Nov. 4.