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Re:Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’... by slowmovintarget on Thursday March 08, 2018 @06:19PM (#16548606)
For the New England states, they're far enough East that it makes sense for them to join the AST time-zone and do away with DST.

Birds start chirping here at 3:30am... that ain't right.

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Re:Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’... by saalweachter on Thursday March 08, 2018 @07:27PM (#16548915)
They're not just East, they're North. If you throw Burlington, VT into the AST, you've then got 8:30 sunrises in the winter.

I think you could make an argument for "double daylight savings time", so that you're 3 months of UTC-5 in the winter and 3 months of UTC-3 in the summer, with UTC-4 in between (which I guess would be AST with "daylight savings time" in the summer and "daylight payback time" in the winter), but when you've got 16 hours of daylight in the summer you've got to put them somewhere. Do you really want to have the sun set at midnight so that it's easier to sleep in in the mornings?

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