Time in New Hampshire

New Hampshire uses the Eastern Time Zone with daylight saving time.

Without daylight saving time, solar noon is about 11:57 AM in southwestern New Hampshire and 11:50 AM in southeastern New Hampshire. New England, which includes New Hampshire, is one of the few areas in the United States where solar noon is before noon. Both of these times get shifted later by one hour during daylight saving time.[1][2] Because solar noon is earlier than most of the rest of the country, and New Hampshire is at a high latitude, sunset can be earlier than in most states.

Some state lawmakers have encourage the state to switch to Atlantic Standard Time without DST. A bill to do so, as long as Massachusetts did the same, passed the state's House of Representatives in 2017 but was killed by the state's Senate.[3]

References

  1. ↑ http://blog.poormansmath.net/images/SolarTimeVsStandardTimeV2.png
  2. ↑ http://suncalc.net
  3. ↑ Concord Monitor: "Senate votes down push to switch N.H.’s time zone" May 11, 2017
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