Massachusetts panel seeks regional talks on time zone change

BOSTON — Days before most U.S. residents “fall back,” a special commission in Massachusetts is recommending that the state not change time zones on its own. The panel, which held several meetings on the possibility of shifting from the Eastern to the Atlantic Time Zone, said in its final report Wednesday that such a change could be beneficial if most other Northeast U.S. states did likewise. Moving to Atlantic time would be equivalent to year-round daylight savings time, ending