Could Massachusetts lead all of New England to change time zones?

[BigmanPigman]

8. Am I being stupid?

Time zones run North and South. The Earth's tilted axis makes countries closest to the Equator (and are closer to the sun) have more daylight while northern countries are further from the sun and have less daylight. This is latitude vs longitude. Therefore shouldn't states change the clocks depending on how far North and South they are located? Would this confuse people with the time zones that are based on the longitude across the entire planet for all countries? Perhaps we should just skip changing clocks after all.

I seem to recall that this was started in the 1970s when there was a huge energy crisis and people needed to conserve energy/electricity hence "Daylight SAVINGS Time".