{"id":26815,"date":"2017-10-26T13:35:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T17:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26815"},"modified":"2017-10-26T13:46:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T17:46:49","slug":"massachusetts-could-leave-the-eastern-time-zone-jump-an-hour-ahead-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26815","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic time! Do it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/massachusetts-could-leave-eastern-time-zone-jump-hour-ahead-n814346\">Six years ago<\/a>, when Tom Emswiler moved from Washington, D.C., to Massachusetts, he saw something that shook him to his core: The sun went down at 4:11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\"I knew I was moving north, but I had no idea how far I was moving east, and so you can imagine my horror when in December the sun was setting\" in the mid-afternoon, Emswiler told NBC News on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He began dreaming of a better future for the Bay State. An hour into the future, to be exact.<\/p>\n<p>Emswiler, a 37-year-old public health advocate, is now one of 11 members of a state commission studying whether Massachusetts should leave the Eastern Time Zone and join the Atlantic Time Zone. In a region where winter darkness comes early, an extra hour of sunlight could be a boon for the economy and a godsend for public health, according to supporters of the shift. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do it!<\/p>\n<p>On a related note... We in the US are in the time of the year right now where sunrises are as late as they will ever be - according to our clocks. These three weeks have the worst mornings. Last Thursday, the sunrise where I am was at 7:25 AM. Today it was 7:32 AM. The Saturday after this, sunrise will be 7:40 AM. Blech! But that night, we leave Daylight Savings Time, and the following Monday, sunrise will be 6:40 AM. And even though it will gradually get later and later until <a href=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=10899\">early January<\/a>, sunrise will never be later than 7:24AM until next October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six years ago, when Tom Emswiler moved from Washington, D.C., to Massachusetts, he saw something that shook him to his core: The sun went down at 4:11 p.m. \"I knew I was moving north, but I had no idea how far I was moving east, and so you can imagine my horror when in December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26815"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26824,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26815\/revisions\/26824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}