Moving toward Atlantic Time

Sunrise from the top of Cadillac Mountain, on Mt. Desert Island, Maine. In the fall and winter, when the sun rises south of due east, it's the first place in the U.S from which you can see the sunrise.

Adapted from Robert Whitcomb's "Digital Diary,'' in GoLocalPov.24

I predict that the New England states, with the possible exception of Connecticut, whose southwestern corner is tightly connected with New York, will eventually adopt year-round Daylight Savings Time – or call it Atlantic Time, which is used in Canada’s Maritime Provinces.

This will ensure more light year-round in the afternoon and address how far east New England is. In the past few weeks, legislators in all six states in the region have been more seriously looking at the shift.