Beacon Hill agrees to mindbending look at time zone change

STATE HOUSE — Embedded in the $1 billion economic development bill Gov. Charlie Baker signed Wednesday was a measure that could affect when morning begins in Massachusetts.
Under the law, a bipartisan commission would spend some of the fall and winter studying the impacts of permanently shifting Bay State clocks onto eastern daylight time. The panel of lawmakers and executive branch officials must look at impacts of a time zone alteration on local and regional economies, education, public health, transportation, energy consumption, commerce and trade.