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acheronyesterday at 9:07 PM0 repliesview on HN

No, the law is that states can decide to not implement DST at all, but they can’t decide to have it permanently.

At one point a couple New England states were looking at this, but for that reason it would have been implemented by moving to a different time zone: year round AST rather than year round EDT. (Which are both UTC-4.) That said, I think states need federal permission to move time zones, too.