Early Sunsets, Health Effects Cited by “Boston Time” Backer

STATE HOUSE – The rest of the country may already think that Boston — the Hub of the Universe — runs on its own time. But Wednesday a legislative commission met to consider actually shifting the Bay State into a different time zone than the rest of the eastern seaboard.

The commission, which lawmakers agreed to form last year, is charged with studying how shifting permanently to eastern daylight time — the time zone that Massachusetts observes between March and November — would affect the state's local and regional economies, its education system, public health, transportation, energy consumption, commerce and trade.