The Special Commission on the Commonwealth's Time Zone will vote on November 1st on a final draft of a report recommending that Massachusetts move to the Atlantic Time Zone from the Eastern Time Zone:
A commission is studying the possibility of having Massachusetts join the Atlantic Time Zone, putting it permanently an hour ahead of its current Eastern slot.
That would mean later sunsets in the colder months, and would put the state on a zonal par with the likes of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Bermuda rather than the rest of the eastern United States.
The 11-member commission submitted a draft report on the move in September, and will vote on a final one on November 1. If that gets a green-light, the recommendation will go to lawmakers—who may or may not pursue the move.
Maine and New Hampshire would likely join Massachusetts in switching to the Atlantic Time Zone.
2014 editorial on the benefits. Also at NBC.
(Score: 3, Informative) by isostatic on Sunday October 29 2017, @08:45PM
OP wasn't suggesting changing the time you get up. If you currently sleep at 2300 and rise at 0700 in the winter in New York local time, you'd simply get up at 1200 and sleep at 0400. If you do 0600-2200 hours in Singapore, you'd instead rise at 2200 and sleep at 1200.