Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Could this be the end of "falling back"?

The case for Atlantic Time (from The Boston Globe,
"Why Mass. should defect from its time zone"
)
Could this be the end of "falling back" one hour every fall?! According to the Boston Globe, "A special commission meets at the State House at 11 a.m. today to start discussions on whether Massachusetts should move from the Eastern to the Atlantic time zone, and stay on Atlantic Standard Time all year round. We would gain more daylight at the end of the day in winter, but our clocks wouldn't always mesh with our Eastern Seaboard neighbors. The time would be the same when other states spring forward from March to November, but an hour later when those states fall back."

Confusing? Sure. But more daylight at the end of the day in winter??? I'm all for that! Plus, would our Eastern Seaboard neighboring states be far behind?

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