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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @03:21AM (2 children)
>And the push for it to be implemented globally.
If the Earth is not flat but a globe, how will the Sun manage to rise and set at the same time for everyone on Earth? What's the geometry of that? Mirrors in space? A one-world government? Maybe order all the people to move to one longitude? What about the ones who don't want to move, are you proposing genocide? I don't think it's worth it just to simplify the timing of phone calls.
>* No DST
Sign me up because that's a cause worth dying for! Make no mistake, many of us will. We're going up against most of North America and most of Europe but we have Ukraine, Russia, most of Africa and all of Asia except Iran [wikipedia.org] on our side. As well as the best parts of South America and Australia. We can win it. And it makes far more sense than the first and second world wars.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Aiwendil on Monday October 30 2017, @09:16AM (1 child)
Why rise and set at the same time? Even when measured in local time it doesn't currently - for instance Luleå (sweden) and and Rome (Italy) is in the same timezone and today the sun rose at 07:16 and 06:40 respectivly (around christmas the diff is about 2h15min) and those roughly align longitudinally [funnily enough Rome is somewhat west of Luleå; while Atens(greece) and Luleå aligns better Greece is in another timezone. Oh, also, Rome and Madrid (spain) are in the same TZ and in Madrid the sun rose at 07:42)
All I'm proposing is getting rid of the "day starts between oo-12 (and ends between oo-04)" (I live near the arctic circle - some days you tend to miss when it goes from sunset to sunrise, or vice versa).
If you want the sun to rise and set at the same local time you should also take north-south into account.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @08:59PM
Interesting, having sunrise and sunset coordinated along a north-south line throughout the year...
It would probably require mandating that "sunrise is at 6 am, sunset at 6 pm" so day-minutes and night-minutes would vary in length during the day (except the equinoxes) ... and during the year...