Switching to an earlier time zone and dropping daylight saving would put Massachusetts an hour out of sync from the rest of the East Coast from November to March, which could result in a good deal of confusion and inconvenience.
again,” meteorologist David Epstein wrote last year. during the first part of January, but the sun would never set before 4:30 p.m. “In Boston, the latest sunrise of the year would be 8:14 a.m. In the winter months, the sun would rise later in the morning and set later in the evening. So in terms of sunlight, for the majority of the year, there would be no difference. In practicality, Massachusetts and the rest of the eastern United States already observe Atlantic Standard Time from March through November. What would the change mean on a day-to-day basis? So the state commission recommended switching to Atlantic Standard Time and then opting out of daylight saving. However, federal law only allows states to opt out of daylight saving time - as Arizona and Hawaii currently do. Perhaps a simpler solution would be to adopt daylight saving time year-round.
In their report Wednesday, the state commission argued more light in the afternoon would boost local commerce via evening retail sales increase retention of students who cite the cold, dark winters as a frustration with the region and even reduce crime and energy usage. Researchers have found that the switch from daylight saving in the fall and winter is associated with an increase in heart attacks, workplace injuries, and pedestrian fatalities. “When it comes to daylight, we can do much better than Alaska.” “Boston lies so far east in the Eastern Time Zone that during standard time, our earliest nightfall of the year is a mere 27 minutes later than in Anchorage,” Tom Emswiler, a leading proponent of changing time zones, wrote in 2014. On a map, New England (and especially so Maine) is hundreds of miles farther east than other Eastern Standard Time cities, which is why it currently gets darker earlier in Boston than it does in, say, Buffalo, despite the latter being farther north.įor the entire month of December, the sun will set in Boston sometime between 4:11 p.m.
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