Posted on 01/11/2017 6:02:30 PM PST by SMGFan
BOSTON – Lacking authority to change the laws of physics to allow more sunlight on the darkest days of winter, a special commission is instead considering whether Massachusetts should change the laws of man and observe daylight saving time year-round. If adopted, Massachusetts residents wouldn't have to set their clocks back in November and forward in March, as most of the U.S. does. Benefits of having daylight saving time throughout the year could include energy savings and less seasonal depression, proponents suggest
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Perhaps moving the clocks back two or three hours would even be better.
I would support this if the whole Eastern Time zone did it, but MA should not have its own separate time zone.
Massachusetts would be joining the Atlantic Time Zone as a result of this along with Nova Scotia and the other Maritime provinces.
Arizona and Hawaii don’t observe daylight savings either, IIRC.
Here in Arizona we don’t do the twice-a-year clock-changing nonsense and we get along just fine.
It sure does smack of graft and patronage doesn’t!
Sounds good to me.
Makes sense, MA is a little bit off anyway.
Sez you.
This time of year, it takes me one hour to drive to Vegas, and three hours to drive home.
Life gets easy again in March.
WHEN TOLD OF THE REASON FOR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME, THE OLD INDIAN SAID “ ONLY THE GOVERNMENT WOULD BELIEVE YOU COULD CUT A FOOT OFF THE TOP OF A BLANKET,SEW IT ON THE BOTTOM AND HAVE A LONGER BLANKET.”
Noon should be noon. Anything else is an abomination.
In the fall, the time change gets them an extra hour of sleep. In the spring, the time change loses them an hour of sleep. Perhaps we suggest to them to just do the fall time change so they don’t have to deal with losing sleep in the spring? Knowing the people up there, they just may go for it.
Instead of pretending that everything is an hour off, how about changing the times that businesses open and people go to work, etc. and do away with DST altogether like Arizona and Saskatchewan? Is it all dictated by the TV schedule?
Why would morning people prefer this? DST pushes the clocks forward, which means the sun rises later in the morning and sets later in the evening.
Good on em. Maybe it will start a trend. The DST crap was done state by state. That is how it has to be undone. Go MA!
How about splitting the difference to 1/2 hour change. Seriously this time change is stupid. More heart attacks happen on the time change day then any other day.
Singapore, which is near the equator and has about the same number of hours of daylight all year long, effectively observes daylight savings time all year long. The sun rises and sets around 7:00 AM and PM respectively. They shift one hour of daylight from morning to evening. In Massachusetts, the sun sets about 4:10 PM for a couple of weeks around December 9th. (The earliest sunset is not on December 21st.) It’s depressing, especially for people who work.
I like the idea of shifting sunset later in the day, and rising in the dark, since most people work in the morning anyway.
I’d rather have more daylight after work. When you’re on the Eastern edge (eg WI) of a time zone, going off daylight savings is a bummer.
How about we stop mucking with the clocks? The same effect is accomplished by changing school start times and encouraging businesses to do likewise.
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