Massachusetts Time Change Could Disrupt TV Event Schedules
One of the biggest problems experts laid out for the Legislature's time zone commission Wednesday is that a change from Eastern Daylight Time to constant Atlantic time would affect the start times for live television, leading to late nights for sports fans.
Dr. David Prerau has researched the human impact of time zones and told the commission about what Newfoundland found when they experimented with their time zone in 1988.
"They found that the most complaints they got about that was kids going to school in the dark and that the west coast hockey games would last until well past midnight," Prerau told the commission.
A time change would put Massachusetts out of sync with major markets like Washington, D.C. and New York for six months a year, when the rest of the coast observes Eastern Standard Time.
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