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Experts and residents square off over proposals for permanent standard time or year‑round daylight time
Summary
The committee heard competing testimony on two bills: H.3405, backing permanent Eastern Standard Time, and S.2157, seeking permanent daylight saving (Atlantic) time; sleep experts and safety advocates favored permanent standard time, while some business and tourism witnesses supported permanent daylight saving time.
The Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight heard sharply different views on two time‑policy bills: H.3405, which would support permanent Eastern Standard Time (often described in testimony as “permanent standard time”), and S.2157, which would establish year‑round daylight saving time (referred to in testimony as Atlantic or permanent daylight time).
Dr. Karen Johnson, a neurologist and sleep medicine specialist representing the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, urged adoption of permanent standard time and opposed permanent daylight saving time. “Permanent daylight saving time would delay sunrises in Massachusetts after 8 a.m. for about two months in winter,” she…
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