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Many US States Consider Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (newsweek.com)
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A special Massachusetts commission recommends the state stop observing Daylight Savings TIme "if a majority of other northeast states, also possibly including New York, also do so." After a 9-to-1 vote, the head of the commission reported their conclusion after months of study: "There's no good reason why we're changing these clocks twice a year"... According to local reports, "The commission studied the pros and cons of the move and found, for example, retailers liked the idea of more daylight late in the day for shoppers... They also said there would be less crime, fewer traffic accidents and we would actually save energy."
A Maine state representative argues that it's actually harmful to observe Daylight Savings Time. "Some of those harms include an increased risk of stroke, more heart attacks, miscarriages for in vitro fertilization patients, among many other undesirable complications," reports Newsweek. Maine's legislature has already passed a bill approving an end to daylight savings time -- if Massachusetts and New Hampshire also end the practice, and if voters approve the change in a referendum.
At least six states are considering changing the time zones, according to Newsweek, and when it comes to Daylight Savings Time, the Maine representative told a reporter she had just one question.
"Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?"
A Maine state representative argues that it's actually harmful to observe Daylight Savings Time. "Some of those harms include an increased risk of stroke, more heart attacks, miscarriages for in vitro fertilization patients, among many other undesirable complications," reports Newsweek. Maine's legislature has already passed a bill approving an end to daylight savings time -- if Massachusetts and New Hampshire also end the practice, and if voters approve the change in a referendum.
At least six states are considering changing the time zones, according to Newsweek, and when it comes to Daylight Savings Time, the Maine representative told a reporter she had just one question.
"Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?"
... and these states consider this TWICE a year, EVERY year!
An extra hour of light in the evening.
I don't care at all whether is saves electricity or not.
It doesn't, it's the adjusting of a schedule that does. And only in the spring, when you "spring ahead" and lose an hour, the extra hour of sleep doesn't really have any effect in the fall.
But if you eliminate daylight saving time, you're not going to change the need to have a winter and summer schedule. The sun's still going to rise when it does, and you're still going to need to adjust because of that. The reason "daylight saving time" exists is to get everyone on the same page about when that happens.
That's a reason for daylight saving, not against.
All by changing the position of the sun, when we drive home. The only things that care about the sun are the cows and fish: If you're not dealing with those critters, you can commit crime anytime, or smash a car anytime. With people arriving home at night, they may use less air-con, so the energy-saving bit may be true.
In my state, many people argue for daylight-saving, so they're in the same time-zone as the city across the state-line.
singular, not plural.
Also you don't need to capitalize each word. This is English, not German.
Think of it like this: during a melee you pick up a +5 magic sword and say, "It's ass kicking time!". Not "It's Ass Kickings Time!"
The reason it doesn't happen is because people will be upset when they find out they have to be on 'winter' time all year round.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
What would we do without that extra hour that is manufactured free during summer? It's free isn't it? It comes from space or something.
What they're suggesting is actually remaining on "Summer" time all year round.
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Several northern states are considering going from Eastern to Atlantic time, effectively springing ahead and never falling back.
Ever since cell phones came out, I don't even notice DST anymore. It just kind of happens and my clocks adjust automatically.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Most people don't like when DST ends, not when it is in effect. We don't like the loss of daylight in the evenings in Winter. It gets dark too quickly. People come come from work and it's already dark and they have no daylight time left to enjoy on their own.
So if DST is abandoned, then clocks should be permanently adjusted forward one hour. Of course that would never happen because standard time zones are offset from UTC.
So maybe the best solution would be to extend DST to cover the entire year.
Advance the clocks half an hour next spring and then leave them there
I hate it, don't see any benefit or reason for the change. Schools can change their start time so the little children don't have to walk in the scary darkness. Analog clocks are easy to adjust but some digital ones are a pain to reset. The health studies should be shared widely but most sheeple will never read them. It's two AM in my zone.
There's nothing unique about the English language that makes it any easier to pick up or use with a limited vocabulary. I manage to be understood in Tokyo with Japanese that is just one step above atrocious. Go to Mexico and the locals some how understand most of the vacationers hurling Spanish that is just as bad. You'll see the same everywhere with locals tolerating travelers making an earnest but generally bad effort to speak the language. Most of my friends who speak English as a second language describe it as an absolute nightmare to learn because pretty much every grammar, syntax and pronunciation rule has exceptions and exceptions to the exceptions (because it originated from languages thrown in a blender). But they make do because they want to work in the US or GB, or somewhere else that requires it.
"Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?"
Because despite everyone's assertions it is actually incredibly simple and unremarkable. I sometimes get the feeling that predominantly Americans spend more time stressing over what time it is and when the time actually changes than to actually go about and live their lives.
It's an unhealthy obsession. God forbid these people ever actually get on a plane or do something else so drastic that can make their clock change by not only 1 hour, but *horror* two hours or more.
I honestly have no clue what the fuss is about.
The whole point of DST in the first place is otherwise in winter the sun sets at 4:30pm. In the summer, it rises at 4:30am. This is fine for farmers, but for an urban population it's no good. I've lived in a region with no DST and it's silly, in summer the sun sets at 7:30pm. Totally wastes useful daylight. If you want to go back to this system so be it, but it's like there is no awareness of why it was adopted in the first place.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
...of not changing would be making drive-in movie theaters viable in the western part of each time zone. Otherwise, you get off work at maybe 5, drive an hour home or maybe more if you're in this screwed-up area of impossible traffic that is the DC area, and when NOT being exactly on the summer solstice, having just a few minutes to get the lawn mowed (hour and a quarter for the 1 acre here, or 45 minutes for the zero-turn mower I have now), and that's it. Not getting anything else done outside. Walk the dog? Do it in the dark. Have a cook-out? Dark. Rake the leaves? Dark.
Dark, dark, dark, dark, dark...
Pee on that. Keep DST, and make the day for something besides sitting in the office and writing code while wasting all the best part of the day for doing stuff outside, then getting home and going broke feeding batteries to the flashlight(s). We can tolerate non-DST in the winter 'cuz its too nippy to enjoy stuff outside anyway, but lets apply roundup to the weeds, spray for mosquitoes, work on our big radio antennas (K8DH here), and everything else outside in the daylight by keeping DST!!!
If an activity needs to be tied to solar dawn, the clock start time can be adjusted. Having the government adjust clock time saves effort for users needing to align activities with dawn, and costs everyone else the effort of adjusting to a "non standard" time.
The change is meaningless for me because I do not work office hours. Like many technology workers, I have a few bursts of activity during the day (for me, 5% between 7-9AM and 80% between 4-6PM) and the rest of the time in between is for studying problems and personal time.
If I were a farmer and I needed my product to the market at a particular time, I think that would matter a lot. Farms can't install floodlights. Fishers, maybe a similar problem? I assume products have to hit the market at a particular time in order to make it to scheduled freight departure points. And adjusting all of those schedules to base off of sunrise at the production point would probably be very difficult or impossible to coordinate.
I am having serious problems figuring out for whom else, this is a real problem. Like, REAL problem that couldn't be changed by simply altering business hours to give employees some sunlight free time.
The proposal in Maine is a bit different than simply ending DST. Rather it is to stop using DST and move the whole state into Atlantic Time.
This would mean that the time in Maine would be the same as the rest of the east coast in the warm weather months when tourist arrive from the states to the south and would retain the advantages of later sunsets of being one hour east of the east coast in the winter and not having to go through the ritual of clock shifting.
Is it so everyone can complain about 0900-1700? For global businesses, lack of timezones would be a huge improvement. None of this, when is the meeting.
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daylight peeks at 16hrs at the start of summer and night peeks at 16hrs at the start of winter.
for optimal health and hormones, 10pm local/sun time is the ideal bed-time.
are you saying that simply getting up at 6am all year isn't tolerable for you?
probably. why else appeal to authority?
i for one would be fine without dst 'cause going to bed at 9 (for optimum health)
isn't so great when you have friends.
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DST is Daylight Saving Time.
Not "savings".
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Put my fist through my alarm clock with its ding-dong death inside my ear. - The Blackjacks.
When your 9-5 work day has midday at 1pm not 12, why the fuck do you complain about how getting up earlier makes it too dark in the morning? Just get up later.
If you consitently breit out stories telling just one side of the argument, you risk being seen as bulls...ters.
Can we please see a counterpoint - what was the basis to introduce DST? What are the benefits? What does the rest of the world using DST think?
Now the economical LED lamps make electricity savings by the DST ridiculously small if any for the whole hoopla.
You cannot make a blanket longer by cutting a foot off the bottom and sewing it back on the top end.
People go to sleep and get up whenever they want. Changing the clocks is retarded.
These local time zones made sense when railroads were the standard way of crossing long distances. But those days are long past... and it gives me a headache to look at a flight schedule and think... if the place leaves Rome at x... and its a two hour flight, when should i leave for Birmingham? Personally, using UTC for everything everywhere seems a better reflection of the current state of the globe. It may mean we have breakfast at 02:00 here but so what... its just a number. The habits we layer upon specific values are just that, habits. When it says 12:00 we are conditioned to think of lunch... If I still wore a watch I would want it to show UTC with an adjustable dial for sunrise/sunset -- like the clock on the PC in my observatory. And as for synchronizing appointments... if everyone on the planet used UTC the confusion of local time zones goes away.
Putting New England (and Quebec) in EST/EDT, presumably to share the same time zone as New York city (because business), did nobody a favor.
Look at a time zone map and see that EST/EDT is a giant wedge, widest at the top, and squished the Atlantic time zone into a narrow strip. I dunno, maybe they couldn't imagine Connecticut and Long Island in EST/EDT while Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire – all directly north – in the Atlantic time zone? Or splitting Connecticut and Long Island? And what then if we left poor Maine as the only state in the Atlantic? Can't have that.
I live in New England. I'd happy switch to Atlantic time regardless of whether we have DST or not. We no longer have a "business reason" to be in the same time zone as NYC, and the Atlantic time zone is the more natural place for use to be when you don't artificially stretch the time zone boundaries. Either that, or put the whole country on one time zone, like China, India, and South Africa. (I can already hear the Conservatards shrieking "are you crazy.")
(Although I do think DST is silly.)
This whole daylight savings time thing is really a joke. It's time for it to go. The ending of daylight savings time is not so bad but the beginning of it is known to cause more health problems, including heart attack. I don't even know why we ever did it. Some claim that it was to give the farmers more light in the morning. Some claim it is so that school-aged children don't have to wait in the dark for the bus. Let's just get rid of this!
As long as I can get the crops in during daylight and save candles, I am happy! For everything else, there is hot coffee!
Not sure why this is such a issue, its really not when at least 80% of people surveyed think it should be abandoned. Its one thing most all American's agree on so why can't we just drop it? Frankly it always had little in statistics to back up continuing it. Days are shorter no matter how you look at it. Most in the medical profession agree that it negatively affects people more then any possible positive that have very little evidence to back that up. This seems like a no brainer to simply stop it. Yet, we seem to have serious problems today recognizing issues and making changes. I've even heard the lame argument we need to keep it just as a reminder to replace batteries in smoke detectors. Even though most now have sealed batteries, or have programed expiration dates and alerts to replace batteries. This is where government could actually do something most agree with and yet don't seem interested.
Jet lag is very real, and it gets worse and worse as one ages. It seems unlikely that there's zero effect at one hour, but then it suddenly kicks in at larger amount of time. If so, then there's some effect. Perhaps trivial in most younger people, but a greater effect with age.
Bed at 10pm every day? Sure, whatever you say, grandpa.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
As I've graduated out of my 20's I've noticed I'm a lot, a LOT more sensitive to time changes than I used to be.
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The whole reason for keeping this stupid bullshit is because of our intransigent 9-5 culture. We waste daylight hours in the morning waiting to go to work, then we don't have any daylight hours left after work to do anything outside.
Why don't we ditch both problems by having more reasonable working hours? I would happily go to a 6A-3P work schedule if it meant getting rid of DST. So-called "night owls" could do 11A-8P and still have "core hours" for meetings and junk, and do their outside stuff in the morning.
As it is today, we can't do ANYTHING outside in the winter because it's just barely getting light out when we go to work and it's already dark when we get home.
UK here, winter time is stupid, it gets light before I even wake up and then it gets dark before I'm even on my way home from work. We just changed from BritishSummerTime which made a lot more sense.
So wake up earlier (which may necessitate going to bed earlier).
The correct solution is not to get rid of DST but to fully embrace it.
We should adjust the clocks everyday to keep N o-clock at sunrise for some specified location in each timezone. This keeps the maximum number of daylight hours after work as possible. When daylight is split on both sides of work, the full time can not be taken advantage. People with jobs can not adjust their own hours to suit daylight, this allows people to maximize the schedule they have to work with.
By adjusting the time a little each day, we wouldn't have any major jumps that throws our bodies way out of whack.
As stated on here, most people use the phones or some other time-aware device such that setting the clock forward and backward doesn't apply to them, the clocks are already doing it automatically.
My preference would be that 7 o-clock be sunrise (obviously this will vary by location in the timezone).
--XYZZY--
SAVING .... SAVING .... there is NO "S"
DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME.
I don't switch my clocks, I just switch my work hours. I'll keep my afternoon sunshine thanks.
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I'm tire to ear this 2 times per year, can you now move on and do it! Not only reporting it 2 times per year.
I am tired of this crap.
and keep it on standard time all year round. What people want is permanent daylight saving time.
Who cares if some countries would live in the dark? Think of all the benefits: easy to collaborate between two parts of the world, markets running in sync, no need to convert time zones constantly...
The states will get around to abandoning DST some 15 or more years from now, long after it becomes abundantly clear to nightowls, early risers, 24/7 businesses, farmers, stock traders, and drug addicts that DST is and always has been total bunk. To normal people and who assume that noon always happens around 12:00pm and OS developers who hate having to reset real time clocks a certain way twice a year, their hopes will be dashed, because legislators and other idiots in positions of authority will come up with another equally dumb idea.
I would certainly consider abandoning Standard Time but abandon Daylight Saving Time ?
Not so much.
The classic OZ housewife's opposition to Summer Time: "It faids me curtins."
Fiat Lux.
Without daylight time the sun would kick my ass out of bed at ~3:00 AM during summer months. Most days it would start to get light before I ever bothered going to sleep.
I have found one logical reason that people may like DST. It normalizes sunrise time through the year, at the expense of extremifying sunset time. Here's a chart showing this.
While in principle you could get up early in the morning and enjoy the sun then, it is much more convenient to enjoy the sun in the evening. So get rid of wintertime and stay on summertime.
This will date me, so posting anonymously. When I was a grad student in Iowa and the state started daylight saving time, the Des Moines Register published letters to the editor by folks worried about what the extra sunlight would do to the crops of corn and soy beans. They writers worried that the extra sunlight would burn the leaves and have a negative effect on yield. This brings to mind the statement H. L. Menken wrote, "No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."
Why do we hang on to this concept of local time at all? Transportation and communication have made us think globally, so why not have our consistent measurement of time move with that? I don't care if my clock says 02:30 when the sun comes up, or if it's 23:00 when I eat dinner. Time is relative anyway, so why make it more complex than it needs to be? If every time-carrying device on the planet showed the same value, it seems logical to me that coordination would actually be EASIER.
You know, instead of saying the working day is 9-5 then occasionally make the clock lie about when those hours are, just change the working day. Instead of being GMT+1, make the working day 8-4. Or if you don't like dark mornings, get everyone to make the working day 10-6. But just stop making the clock lie.
instead of setting the clocks back an hour in the fall, we just set them back 30 minutes and then next spring dont change them, and abandon the daylight savings time thing
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We could turn back the clock 6 hours instead of one. That way we go to work when it's still dark and it remains dark for most of the time we're at work, and then when we get out it's about (real) noon and even in Winter we have at least 3-4 hours of daylight left. And in Summer even a whooping 10!
If the holy grail is to have daylight when you get out of work, why don't you put your time change where your mouth is?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
...not daylight savings time.
Anyone calling it "Daylight Savings Time" should not be making any decisions regarding Daylight Saving Time.
Why stop half way? Push the clock another 5-6 hours forwards, go to work right after Midnight so you can get out around noon and have 4 hours of daylight left in Winter and 10 in Summer!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The extra hour of daylight during the summer really dries out my lawn.
There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.
Fall back an hour each November, and don't spring forward in April. We all get a little extra sleep.
A lot of people have died for daylight savings time. At what point do we say enough is enough.
He's got feeding time down, then it changes by an hour and confuses him.
exercise + nutrition. Get yourself a health coach if you need it.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Just use UTC everywhere and schedule local events and work hours around daylight hours. Between having time zones and adjusting clocks for daylight saving time, it's not like the time has anything to do with the position of the sun anymore. Between globalization and the expansion of people's social circles into other time zones, I think if it's just easier to say the local work day is from 3:00 to 11:00 than to deal with figuring out the offset between my self and wherever my friends and colleagues happen to be (especially if people are traveling around at the time).
I know this sounds crazy, but short of civilization collapsing, it's only going to become less crazy with each passing year.
I donâ(TM)t know what the hell this article is taking about. Getting rid of standard time or daylight savings time.
I hate standards time. And it would be better to keep daylight savings time as the new standards. After all, standards time is only 4 months. Nov, dec, Jan, feb.
Best idea about DST comes from an old Indian... Only government would think you could cut a foot off a blanket, sew it onto the top, and have a longer blanket. It's a PITA to deal with, serves no useful purpose anymore, other than during the summer giving people more after work time to "play". GET RID OF IT!
It would be best to just have kept the clocks on daylight time permanently. That would give an extra hour of daylight for the evening commute. An extra hour of daylight in the evening is more useful than an added hour in the morning.
It's also a mistake to have 00:00 set to midnight. Midnight doesn't seem like the end/start of a day. Midnight "feels" like late night of the same day. That is reason enough to have ordination of a day's hours not reset at midnight.
04:00 or 05:00 are much more logical choices for the start of the day (thus setting 00:00 to be either one of them).
I think setting 00:00 to what actually constitutes the reasonable start of a day matters. For example, if 00:00 is set to 04:00 and you start work at what is now 08:00, that would be 04:00. That gives you a reasonable understanding that you start work 4 hours into the new day. When you get off work at what is now 17:00 it would be 13:00. That also gives you a reasonable understanding that you have 11 more hours left in your day.
Set fixed times for both sunrise and sunset locally and adjust time pacing accordingly. This way you always have optimal lighting when go to work and getting back. As a bonus, depending where you live and what time of year is, time can really fly at work sometimes.
I have spoken to a lot of Americans online about daylight saving and over the years the most idiotic thing I've discovered is a large portion of daylight saving haters, actually hate "normal" time when it turns to winter. They actually prefer DST, all the time....
They just don't realise the difference between the two, and I've found quite a few complaints like this. Kind of ridiculous.
This. If you're going to abandon the natural basis of time where the sun is at its highest at 12, then feel free to use any arbitrary system. For example, use the alphabet instead of numbers. Or maybe, just maybe, keep the time itself as-is and (omg) change your own schedule instead.
Since the DST proponents often talk about getting an extra hour of sunlight for free, why stop there? Let's have something like 24 hours of DST, so we can have a whole extra day for free, and not mess up our sleep cycles.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Not too long ago, my home state was one of the few locations in the entire country which did not observe daylight savings time. Like with most other decisions made by my state, we were considered backwards for abstaining from the bounty of progress that daylight savings purportedly represented for so long. When the decision finally came down twelve years ago to finally embrace daylight savings, it was a controversial one. Now I understand why.
Really, I couldn't love it more.
At first I was very skeptical about whether or not daylight savings time would actually produce any sort of benefits for myself or anyone else, and I thought it was pretty foolish for everyone to have to adjust their clocks twice a year to accomplish something that could have been done in the scheduling office instead of the legislature. In that particular regard my views have not changed - I still think that it's best left up to individual businesses whether or not to change their hours according to the season. However, after experiencing it for the first time, I was immediately struck by how powerful the illusion created by daylight savings was, and how in a very real way, it improved my quality of life. That is, until autumn rolled around, daylight savings ended, and I was immediately plunged into what seemed like an eternity of darkness. I couldn't wait until it was time to 'spring forward' again, even if it meant losing sleep. Observing the so-called extra hour of daylight (really just the act of beginning and ending your day's activities an hour early) changed my routine in a way that allowed me to enjoy the daylight hours more, get more outdoor activities done, and made life during the warmer months generally more pleasant. Even into the early days of fall, when days are rapidly shortening, the benefits are profound.
So why end it at all? Why not keep daylight savings time all year long? Especially in winter, when the early sunsets mean leaving work in the dead of night for most people. So what if the sunrises are an hour late? The sun already rises after grownups are at work and children are at school in the dead of winter anyway! In my town at least, there would be virtually no negative consequences at all and plenty of benefits to observing daylight savings time year-round. My skepticism surrounding the topic of daylight savings has been completely broken, to the point where, although I once dreaded the idea of it, I now can't get enough of it.
Here's the tricky part, though. If everyone were to adjust their business hours according to 'God's time' so that everything they scheduled were to take place an hour early, there would be no need for daylight savings at all. For businesses where year-round observance really would be inconvenient, they can just... change their hours seasonally. Maybe they could even taper it so the impact on employee health and morale is less dramatic, or even just not do it at all. All the benefits, none of the drawbacks, and none of the controversy. No legislation about clocks, no biannual two weeks of hell for most people. Even for folks like me who have been converted into daylight savings believers (and there are plenty of such people,) the clock changes are almost a deal-breaker, but if the benefits to observing daylight savings are as obvious as they seem to be to the majority of my peers, why is it so difficult to just adjust business hours accordingly without the need for good ol' DST?
I love daylight savings, but I don't understand the need for it. Make the ol' nine-to-five an eight-to-four and you're golden.
Because guess what? With DST noon is no longer midday. No longer 12. It's 1pm. POST MERIDIAN.
Comprehension arriving yet?
http://www.eileendonoghue.org/... has no mention of IT costs - it apparently assumes there's always a simple supported process like "Control Panel > Date and Time > Change time zone" that the government could announce to all citizens. The reality may be bleak. For example, I own several IoT devices that required me to choose a timezone at initial setup, and I suspect a huge fraction of device owners would never successfully reconfigure them for a different timezone. Two apparently have no UI at all for that (the easiest way is to root it and make a manual /etc/localtime
change). In other cases, the device owner needs to remember the admin
password and/or find the documentation to learn where that UI feature
is hidden. People will simply give up, either discarding the device or
living with a wrong time display for months. Also, it can be much
worse than just a wrong display, such as devices configured to open up
physical security controls between 9 AM and 5 PM local time.
It's no longer 2007 (the last time the government mucked with DST). IoT is here. Changing DST now will litter the northeast U.S. with literally millions of insecure or otherwise broken devices.
Why is ending this twice-yearly idiocy even remotely controversial?
Kill it. Kill it with fire.
It is Daylight Saving Time not Daylight Savings Time. Not sure why people still get that wrong with the internet all around us to help us check things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... I am for Daylight Saving Time all year round.
Once you realize it noon is not really the middle of the day it doesnâ(TM)t matter what time it is. Time is a construct of man.
I propose that all time zones be eliminated in the entire planet simply switch to GMT. Get up and go to work or school when you need to.
As a Rhode Islander, having Mass on another time zone would be an absolute nightmare. It makes no sense for them to go it alone, the New England states are just too small and we are ALWAYS crossing each others borders. That said, if all of New England decided to switch to no DST, I'd be happy to be rid of it.
But then Central and Eastern CT are pretty dependent on the NY City metro area. What a mess!
If you go an look into the reasons we still have the time change it is not farmers. They were actually the only people who have organized against it because it messes up the time schedule of animals and they want the sunlight at the end of the day during the fall months.
So a boon to the economy as people have to throw away all the unpatchable IoT and replace them with ones that can handle a change in the timezones.
So did CNN report that Trump supports DST, and now all of the blue states have to ban it?
Businessmen — the wealthy magnate kind — want extra time for their golf games and extra time to extract more work from their underlings. So they talked magic felafel to the politicians and, ta-da!, we're stuck moving our clocks every March and November for their benefit. (Hoosier politicians resisted the felafel until Someone Else's Man Mitch got it enacted in 2006.)
--- Andy West http://andywest.org
Let's get rid of time zones, too. Totally unnecessary. I'll eat when I'm hungry. I'll go to work during the day, and sleep when it's dark. Clocks are arbitrary and it would save us so much headache if we could just pick a single time and go for it.