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TexasTowelie

(117,050 posts)
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 11:31 PM Feb 2021

Atlantic Standard Time? Bill would move CT into a new time zone

A group of Connecticut legislators is part of a region-wide push to move the entire northeast of the United States off Eastern Standard Time.

If successful, and if other states from New York north go along, Connecticut would use Atlantic Standard Time instead, and do away with Daylight Saving Time in the process. In effect, the region would be on Daylight Saving Time for all 12 months — up from almost eight months now.

“I just think it’s a practical means to handle something that we don’t need anymore,” said state Sen. Cathy Osten, D-Sprague.

Osten signed on to the initiative this year, but state Rep. Kurt Vail, R-Stafford, has been submitting a similar bill for five years running.

Read more: https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Atlantic-Standard-Time-Bill-would-move-CT-into-a-15922028.php

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Atlantic Standard Time? Bill would move CT into a new time zone (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2021 OP
Some are a generation ahead of their time. Some just an hour ahead. Beakybird Feb 2021 #1
So this creates another time zone? We'll now have 5? Really! brush Feb 2021 #2
Yes, and while we're at it, get rid of DST in the Central Tine Zone, too. ShazzieB Feb 2021 #3
Hay now! sprinkleeninow Feb 2021 #4

brush

(57,727 posts)
2. So this creates another time zone? We'll now have 5? Really!
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 11:57 PM
Feb 2021

Do we really need this additional complexity? Why not just get rid of daylight savings time in the entirety of the EST zone?

ShazzieB

(18,756 posts)
3. Yes, and while we're at it, get rid of DST in the Central Tine Zone, too.
Sat Feb 13, 2021, 12:18 AM
Feb 2021

I can't speak for those in the other two time zones, but that spring time change really kicks my ass, and the older I get, the harder it kicks. I hate it!

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