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Re:Time zone news by BookmarkSaver on Thursday October 29, 2015 @01:10PM (#10472569)
> For example, sunset is a little after 4:00 PM in Boston in late December. If we stuck with daylight savings time, it'd be a little after 3:00.

This seems backwards. Sunset would be after 5 if they kept daylight savings.

I used to live in Boston, and I despised how early the sun would set. It made getting off of work demoralizing. I always liked the idea of just switching to Atlantic time. Whatever the case may be, I strongly value daylight later in the day rather than in the morning.

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Re:Time zone news by bostonpete on Thursday October 29, 2015 @06:33PM (#10474859)
You're right, I got it backwards. The problem would be that kids would be walking to school in the dark -- not any less of a problem though.

As it is sunrise is after 7 in the winter (it'd be after 8). In New York it would be even later since they're further west.

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