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Time in Canada

January 06, 2023

Time in Canada, by regional law, is divided into six standard time zones covering the country's provinces and territories. Most regions operate on standard time from the first Sunday in November to the second Sunday in March and daylight saving time the rest of the year.[1]

Time zones in Canada
Standard DST Time zone
UTC−08:00 UTC−07:00 Pacific
UTC−07:00 (year round) Mountain
UTC−07:00 UTC−06:00 Mountain
UTC−06:00 (year round) Central
UTC−06:00 UTC−05:00 Central
UTC−05:00 (year round) Eastern
UTC−05:00 UTC−04:00 Eastern
UTC−04:00 (year round) Atlantic
UTC−04:00 UTC−03:00 Atlantic
UTC−03:30 UTC−02:30 Newfoundland

The division between time zones are based on proposals by Scottish Canadian railway engineer Sandford Fleming, who pioneered the use of the 24-hour clock, the world's time zone system, and a standard prime meridian.[2]

Official time

Main article: National Research Council Time Signal
 
National Research Council laboratories in Ottawa

The National Research Council (NRC) maintains Canada's official time through the use of atomic clocks.[3] The official time is specified in legislation passed by the individual provinces. In Quebec it is based on coordinated universal time.[4] The other provinces use mean solar time.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] The NRC provides both coordinated universal time and mean solar time in its signals.[15] It makes time servers available for direct synchronization with computers. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has aired a daily time signal, the National Research Council Time Signal, since November 5, 1939.[16]

Time notation

 
Canadian National timetable from 1975 using the 24-hour clock
Main article: Date and time notation in Canada § Time

The Government of Canada recommends use of the 24-hour clock (e.g. 12:10), which is widely used in contexts such as transportation schedules, parking meters, and data transmission.[17] Speakers of Canadian French predominantly use this system, but most Canadian English speakers use the 12-hour clock in everyday speech (e.g. 12:10 p.m.), even when reading from a 24-hour display, similar to the use of the 24-hour clock in the United Kingdom.

Zones

Pacific Time Zone

Pacific Standard Time (PST) GMT−08:00 and Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) GMT−07:00:

Mountain Time Zone

Mountain Standard Time (MST) GMT−07:00 and Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) GMT−06:00:

Mountain Standard Time (MST) GMT−07:00 year-round:

Central Time Zone

Central Standard Time (CST) GMT−06:00 and Central Daylight Time CDT GMT−05:00:

Central Standard Time (CST) GMT−06:00 year-round:

  • Saskatchewan (most of the province) (see Lloydminster, and Creighton, above)

Eastern Time Zone

Eastern Standard Time (EST) GMT−05:00 and Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) GMT−04:00:

  • Nunavut
  • Ontario
    • east of 90° West (except the Big Trout Lake area), plus
    • west of 90° West: Shebandowan and Upsala areas
  • Quebec (most of province)
    • Areas of Labrador adjacent to Schefferville (in Quebec but very close to the Labrador border) observe EST and DST unofficially.

Eastern Standard Time (EST) GMT−05:00 year-round:

Atlantic Time Zone

Atlantic Standard Time (AST) GMT−04:00 and Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT) GMT−03:00:

Atlantic Standard Time (AST) UTC−04:00 year-round:

Newfoundland Time Zone

Newfoundland Standard Time (NST) GMT−03:30 and Newfoundland Daylight Time (NDT) GMT−02:30:

Former time zones

  • The Yukon Time Zone (GMT−09:00) covered Yukon from 1900 until 1966. In 1983, the zone (then covering only a small portion of Alaska) was restructured to cover most of Alaska and renamed the Alaska Time Zone.
  • In 1988, Newfoundland observed "double daylight saving time" from April 3 until October 30, meaning that the time was set ahead by 2 hours.[20] All of Newfoundland and southern Labrador, which observes GMT−03:30 as its standard time zone, observed GMT−01:30.[21] This only happened in 1988 and the province now only adjusts its time by one hour for daylight saving time.

Daylight saving time

Main article: Daylight saving time in Canada

Four Canadian cities, by local ordinance, observed daylight saving time in 1916. Brandon, Manitoba, adopted it on April 17. It was followed by Winnipeg on April 23, Halifax on April 30, and Hamilton, Ontario, on June 4.[22] Port Arthur, Ontario, was the first place in the world to introduce it, on July 1, 1908.

Daylight saving time is currently observed in nine of ten provinces and two of three territories, but with exceptions in several provinces and Nunavut. Most of the province of Saskatchewan, despite geographically being in the Mountain Time Zone, observes year-round CST. In 2020, the territory of Yukon abandoned seasonal time change and moved to permanently observing MST year-round.[23] Under the Constitution of Canada, laws related to timekeeping are a purely provincial matter. In practice, since the late 1960s DST across Canada has been closely or completely synchronized with its observance in the United States to promote consistent economic and social interaction. When the United States extended DST in 1987 to the first Sunday in April, all DST-observing Canadian provinces followed suit to mimic the change.

In 2019, the legislature of British Columbia began the process of eliminating the practice of observing daylight saving time in the province. On October 31, 2019, the government introduced Bill 40 in the legislature, which would define "Pacific Time" as "7 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)".[24] In a press release, the provincial government stated an intention to maintain alignment of clock time with Washington, Oregon, California, and Yukon.[25] The move follows a consultation earlier in 2019, in which the province received over 223,000 responses, 93% of which said they would prefer year-round DST as compared to the status quo of changing the clocks twice a year.[26][27][28] The premier of British Columbia discussed the issue with Yukon premier Sandy Silver, who said in October that he needs more consultation with Yukon stakeholders, and with Alberta and Alaska.[29]

The latest United States change (Energy Policy Act of 2005) to daylight saving time, adding parts of March and November to when daylight saving time is observed, which began in 2007 was adopted by the various provinces and territories on the following dates:

  • Ontario[30] and Manitoba[31] – October 20, 2005
  • Quebec – December 5, 2005[32]
  • Prince Edward Island – December 6, 2005[33]
  • New Brunswick – December 23, 2005[34]
  • Alberta – February 2, 2006[35]
  • Northwest Territories – March 4, 2006[36]
  • British Columbia – March 31, 2006[37]
  • Nova Scotia – April 25, 2006[38]
  • Yukon – July 14, 2006.[39] Year-round MST as of March 8, 2020.[23]
  • Newfoundland and Labrador – November 20, 2006, but officially announced on January 18, 2007[40]
  • Nunavut – February 19, 2007[41]
  • Saskatchewan – No official action was taken, as almost all of the province remains on CST year-round. However, the few places in the province that do observe daylight saving (Lloydminster and the surrounding area, which straddles the Alberta border and observes Alberta's Mountain Time – and Creighton, which observes daylight saving on an unofficial basis due to its proximity to the border with Manitoba) follow the aforementioned March–November schedule just like the other provinces and territories.

IANA time zone database

Data for Canada from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database. Columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself.

C.c.* Coordinates* TZ* Comments* UTC offset UTC offset DST Notes
CA +4734−05243 America/St_Johns Newfoundland; Labrador (southeast) −03:30 −02:30
CA +4439−06336 America/Halifax Atlantic - NS (most areas); PE −04:00 −03:00 Plus Magdalen Islands and Listuguj Miꞌgmaq First Nation in Quebec.[42]
CA +4612−05957 America/Glace_Bay Atlantic - NS (Cape Breton) −04:00 −03:00 Likely includes all of Cape Breton Island.[43]
CA +4606−06447 America/Moncton Atlantic - New Brunswick −04:00 −03:00 Like America/Halifax, except DST time change happened at 12:01 a.m. rather than 2:00 a.m. prior to 2007.
CA +5320−06025 America/Goose_Bay Atlantic - Labrador (most areas) −04:00 −03:00 Like America/Halifax, except DST time change happened at 12:01 a.m. rather than 2:00 a.m. from 1987–2011. (Also observed Newfoundland Time until 1966.)
CA +5125−05707 America/Blanc-Sablon AST - QC (Lower North Shore) −04:00 −04:00 East of 63rd meridian west.[42]
CA America/Montreal −05:00 −04:00 Redirects to America/Toronto as of version 2015c.
CA +4339−07923 America/Toronto Eastern - ON, QC (most areas), Bahamas −05:00 −04:00 Legally includes all of Ontario east of 90th meridian west, but in practice only applied to urban areas until 1974.
CA America/Nipigon −05:00 −04:00 Redirects to America/Toronto as of version 2022f.
CA America/Thunder_Bay −05:00 −04:00 Redirects to America/Toronto as of version 2022f.
CA +6344−06828 America/Iqaluit Eastern - NU (most areas) −05:00 −04:00
CA America/Pangnirtung −05:00 −04:00 Places that switched from Atlantic Time to Eastern Time in 1995.
CA +744144−0944945 America/Resolute Central - NU (Resolute) −06:00 −05:00 Places in Central Time that skipped DST in 2007.
CA +484531−0913718 America/Atikokan EST - ON (Atikokan); NU (Coral H) −05:00 −05:00 Legally Central Time, but in practice observes EST year-round.
CA +624900−0920459 America/Rankin_Inlet Central - NU (central) −06:00 −05:00
CA +4953−09709 America/Winnipeg Central - ON (west); Manitoba −06:00 −05:00 In practice includes Big Trout Lake and Denare Beach, though by law they should be in America/Toronto and America/Regina, respectively.
CA America/Rainy_River −06:00 −05:00 Redirects to America/Winnipeg as of version 2022f.
CA +5024−10439 America/Regina CST - SK (most areas) −06:00 −06:00
CA +5017−10750 America/Swift_Current CST - SK (midwest) −06:00 −06:00 Western Saskatchewan towns that observed Mountain Time until 1972.
CA +5333−11328 America/Edmonton Mountain - AB; BC (E); SK (W) −07:00 −06:00
CA +690650−1050310 America/Cambridge_Bay Mountain - NU (west) −07:00 −06:00
CA +6227−11421 America/Yellowknife Mountain - NT (central) −07:00 −06:00 East of 120th meridian west.[44]
CA +682059−1334300 America/Inuvik Mountain - NT (west) −07:00 −06:00 West of 120th meridian west.[44]
CA +4906−11631 America/Creston MST - BC (Creston) −07:00 −07:00 Places in Pacific Time that have not observed DST since the database cut-off date (1970).
CA +5546−12014 America/Dawson_Creek MST - BC (Dawson Cr, Ft St John) −07:00 −07:00 Places in Pacific Time that stopped using DST in 1973.
CA +5848−12242 America/Fort_Nelson MST - BC (Ft Nelson) −07:00 −07:00
CA +4916−12307 America/Vancouver Pacific - BC (most areas) −08:00 −07:00
CA +6043−13503 America/Whitehorse MST - Yukon (east) −07:00 −07:00 East of 138th meridian west.[45]
CA +6404−13925 America/Dawson MST - Yukon (west) −07:00 −07:00 West of 138th meridian west.[45]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Prairie Creek Airport, operated by Canadian Zinc, located in southwest NWT, is shown as observing PST/PDT. North of Sixty Fishing Camps (Obre Lake/North of Sixty Airport) and Kasba Lake Lodge (Kasba Lake Airport) are shown as operating on CST/CDT.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 16 July 2020 to 0901Z 10 September 2020.
  2. ^ Creet, Mario (1990). "Sandford Fleming and Universal Time". Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. 14 (1–2): 66–89. doi:10.7202/800302ar.
  3. ^ "NRC time services". National Research Council. from the original on 20 July 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  4. ^ National Assembly (1 January 2007). "Legal Time Act 2006". Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  5. ^ Minister of Justice (26 February 2015). "Interpretation Act R.S.C., 1985" (PDF). Retrieved 21 September 2020. This Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, section 35(1) refers to 'standard time' for the several provinces, defining each in relation to 'Greenwich time', but does not use the expression 'Greenwich mean time'.
  6. ^ Alberta Queen's Printer (1 January 2007). "Daylight Saving Time Act, RSA 2000". Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  7. ^ Queen's Printer (5 April 2016). "Interpretation Act, RSBC 1996". Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  8. ^ Manitoba (1 February 1988). "The Official Time Act". Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  9. ^ Queen's Printer for New Brunswick (1 September 2011). "Time Definition Act 2011" (PDF). Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  10. ^ Queen's Printer, St John's (2012). "Standard Time Act RSNL 1990". Retrieved 21 September 2020. By §2(1) "Time in the province shall be reckoned as 3 1/2 hours later [sic] than Greenwich mean solar time."
  11. ^ Office of the Legislative Counsel (22 September 1998). "Time Definition Act". Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  12. ^ Queen's Printer for Ontario (31 December 1990). "Time Act, R.S.O. 1990". Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  13. ^ Legislative Counsel Office (2 December 2015). "Interpretation Act 1988" (PDF). Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  14. ^ The Queen's Printer (26 February 1978). "The Time Act 1978" (PDF). Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  15. ^ National Research Council (28 July 2020). "DUT1 announcement". Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  16. ^ Bartlett, Geoff (5 November 2014). "'The beginning of the long dash' indicates 75 years of official time on CBC". CBC News. from the original on 5 November 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  17. ^ Collishaw, Barbara (2002). "FAQs on Writing the Time of Day". Terminology Update. 35 (3): 11. from the original on 2018-07-14. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  18. ^ Buckle, Anne (21 September 2015). . Time and Date. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  19. ^ a b Legal time in Québec 2011-12-11 at the Wayback Machine, Ministry of Justice of Quebec, April 20, 2015.
  20. ^ Benesh, Peter (1988-06-21). "Daylight Almost Until Midnight: Newfoundland Tries out Double Daylight-Saving Time". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 2020-02-02.
  21. ^ Order re: Newfoundland Double Daylight Savings Time, 1988. O.C. 1404/87. Newfoundland Gazette, 1988-02-19, page 67.
  22. ^ Doris Chase Doane, Time Changes in Canada and Mexico, 2nd edition, 1972.
  23. ^ a b Government of Yukon (March 4, 2020). "Yukon to end seasonal time change". Retrieved September 23, 2020.
  24. ^ "Bill 40 – 2019: Interpretation Amendment Act, 2019". Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. 2019. from the original on 2019-11-03. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
  25. ^ "Interpretation amendment act sets stage for year-round daylight time" (PDF) (Press release). British Columbia Office of the Premier / Ministry of Attorney General. 2019-10-31. (PDF) from the original on 2019-11-03. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
  26. ^ Chan, Cheryl (2019-09-11). "B.C. survey shows overwhelming support for permanent Daylight Saving Time". Vancouver Sun. from the original on 2019-11-03. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
  27. ^ "Daylight Saving Time Public Consultation: Final Report" (PDF). 2019. (PDF) from the original on 2019-09-11. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
  28. ^ "B.C.'s daylight saving survey gets more public engagement than marijuana regulation". CBC News. 2019-07-05. from the original on 2019-07-07. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
  29. ^ Plonka, Gabrielle (2019-10-01). "B.C. premier meets with Silver, grand chief". Whitehorse Daily Star. from the original on 2019-11-02. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
  30. ^ "Time Act". from the original on 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2013-11-25.
  31. ^ Province Introduces Legislation that Would Extend Daylight Saving Time in Manitoba 2016-07-23 at the Wayback Machine (The Official Time Amendment Act 2006-05-28 at the Wayback Machine,The Official Time Act 2005-11-09 at the Wayback Machine)
  32. ^ "Bill n°2 : Legal Time Act". from the original on 2012-11-20. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
  33. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-08-23. Retrieved 2006-07-27.
  34. ^ "Changes to daylight saving time in New Brunswick in 2007 (05/12/23)". from the original on 2006-09-01. Retrieved 2006-05-18.
  35. ^ Alberta sees the light with a timely announcement
  36. ^ Daylight Saving Time Regulations 2014-04-19 at the Wayback Machine
  37. ^ . Archived from the original on 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2006-05-18.
  38. ^ "Nova Scotia to Change Daylight Saving Time". from the original on 2017-09-23. Retrieved 2017-09-16.
  39. ^ Yukon To Adopt Extended Daylight Saving Time Starting March 2007 2013-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
  40. ^ "An Act Respecting Standard Time and Daylight Time in the Province". from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2013-11-25.
  41. ^ . Archived from the original on 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2013-11-25.
  42. ^ a b Legal Time Act, CQLR c T-5.1, s 2.
  43. ^ Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. "tzdb data for North and Central America and environs". Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  44. ^ a b Interpretation Act, SC 1967–68, c 7, s 28, "standard time".
  45. ^ a b Interpretation Ordinance, YCO 1967/59.

External links

  • Saskatchewan time system
  • Canadian time zone maps
  • Official Times across Canada
  • North American Time zone maps and border data

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The lead section of this article may need to be rewritten Use the lead layout guide to ensure the section follows Wikipedia s norms and is inclusive of all essential details June 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Time in Canada by regional law is divided into six standard time zones covering the country s provinces and territories Most regions operate on standard time from the first Sunday in November to the second Sunday in March and daylight saving time the rest of the year 1 Time zones in Canada Standard DST Time zone UTC 08 00 UTC 07 00 Pacific UTC 07 00 year round Mountain UTC 07 00 UTC 06 00 Mountain UTC 06 00 year round Central UTC 06 00 UTC 05 00 Central UTC 05 00 year round Eastern UTC 05 00 UTC 04 00 Eastern UTC 04 00 year round Atlantic UTC 04 00 UTC 03 00 Atlantic UTC 03 30 UTC 02 30 Newfoundland The division between time zones are based on proposals by Scottish Canadian railway engineer Sandford Fleming who pioneered the use of the 24 hour clock the world s time zone system and a standard prime meridian 2 Contents 1 Official time 2 Time notation 3 Zones 3 1 Pacific Time Zone 3 2 Mountain Time Zone 3 3 Central Time Zone 3 4 Eastern Time Zone 3 5 Atlantic Time Zone 3 6 Newfoundland Time Zone 4 Former time zones 5 Daylight saving time 6 IANA time zone database 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 10 External linksOfficial time EditMain article National Research Council Time Signal National Research Council laboratories in Ottawa The National Research Council NRC maintains Canada s official time through the use of atomic clocks 3 The official time is specified in legislation passed by the individual provinces In Quebec it is based on coordinated universal time 4 The other provinces use mean solar time 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 The NRC provides both coordinated universal time and mean solar time in its signals 15 It makes time servers available for direct synchronization with computers The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has aired a daily time signal the National Research Council Time Signal since November 5 1939 16 Time notation Edit Canadian National timetable from 1975 using the 24 hour clock Main article Date and time notation in Canada Time The Government of Canada recommends use of the 24 hour clock e g 12 10 which is widely used in contexts such as transportation schedules parking meters and data transmission 17 Speakers of Canadian French predominantly use this system but most Canadian English speakers use the 12 hour clock in everyday speech e g 12 10 p m even when reading from a 24 hour display similar to the use of the 24 hour clock in the United Kingdom Zones EditPacific Time Zone Edit Pacific Standard Time PST GMT 08 00 and Pacific Daylight Time PDT GMT 07 00 British Columbia most of the province Mountain Time Zone Edit Mountain Standard Time MST GMT 07 00 and Mountain Daylight Time MDT GMT 06 00 Alberta British Columbia southeastern Columbia Shuswap Regional District east of the Selkirk Mountains Regional District of East Kootenay Regional District of Central Kootenay east of the Kootenay River and some parts east of Kootenay Lake that are south of and including Riondel but not Creston which observes MST year round and Kootenay Bay Northwest Territories except for Tungsten see above two fishing lodges in the southeast and a mine site in the southwest note 1 Nunavut see Time in Nunavut west of 102 West and all communities in the Kitikmeot Region Saskatchewan see Time in Saskatchewan Lloydminster and surrounding area the municipal government chose to unify the entire city with Alberta s time zone Mountain Standard Time MST GMT 07 00 year round Yukon British Columbia northeastern Northern Rockies Regional Municipality 18 most of Peace River Regional District except Fort Ware including Dawson Creek British Columbia southeastern CrestonCentral Time Zone Edit Central Standard Time CST GMT 06 00 and Central Daylight Time CDT GMT 05 00 Manitoba Saskatchewan Creighton unofficial Nunavut between 85 West and 102 West and Resolute plus all communities in the Kivalliq Region and the west shore of Hudson Bay except Southampton Island Coral Harbour Ontario northwestern west of 90 West except the Atikokan New Osnaburgh and Pickle Lake areas and the Shebandowan and Upsala areas east of 90 West Big Trout Lake areaCentral Standard Time CST GMT 06 00 year round Saskatchewan most of the province see Lloydminster and Creighton above Eastern Time Zone Edit Eastern Standard Time EST GMT 05 00 and Eastern Daylight Time EDT GMT 04 00 Nunavut east of 85 West and all communities in the Qikiqtaaluk Region except Resolute Ontario east of 90 West except the Big Trout Lake area plus west of 90 West Shebandowan and Upsala areas Quebec most of province Areas of Labrador adjacent to Schefferville in Quebec but very close to the Labrador border observe EST and DST unofficially Eastern Standard Time EST GMT 05 00 year round Nunavut entire Southampton Island Coral Harbour Ontario west of 90 West Atikokan area and New Osnaburgh Pickle Lake areaAtlantic Time Zone Edit Atlantic Standard Time AST GMT 04 00 and Atlantic Daylight Time ADT GMT 03 00 Labrador all but the southeastern tip New Brunswick Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island Quebec Magdalen Islands and Listuguj Mi gmaq First Nation 19 Atlantic Standard Time AST UTC 04 00 year round Quebec east of the Natashquan River 19 Newfoundland Time Zone Edit Newfoundland Standard Time NST GMT 03 30 and Newfoundland Daylight Time NDT GMT 02 30 Labrador southeastern NewfoundlandFormer time zones EditThe Yukon Time Zone GMT 09 00 covered Yukon from 1900 until 1966 In 1983 the zone then covering only a small portion of Alaska was restructured to cover most of Alaska and renamed the Alaska Time Zone In 1988 Newfoundland observed double daylight saving time from April 3 until October 30 meaning that the time was set ahead by 2 hours 20 All of Newfoundland and southern Labrador which observes GMT 03 30 as its standard time zone observed GMT 01 30 21 This only happened in 1988 and the province now only adjusts its time by one hour for daylight saving time Daylight saving time EditMain article Daylight saving time in Canada Four Canadian cities by local ordinance observed daylight saving time in 1916 Brandon Manitoba adopted it on April 17 It was followed by Winnipeg on April 23 Halifax on April 30 and Hamilton Ontario on June 4 22 Port Arthur Ontario was the first place in the world to introduce it on July 1 1908 Daylight saving time is currently observed in nine of ten provinces and two of three territories but with exceptions in several provinces and Nunavut Most of the province of Saskatchewan despite geographically being in the Mountain Time Zone observes year round CST In 2020 the territory of Yukon abandoned seasonal time change and moved to permanently observing MST year round 23 Under the Constitution of Canada laws related to timekeeping are a purely provincial matter In practice since the late 1960s DST across Canada has been closely or completely synchronized with its observance in the United States to promote consistent economic and social interaction When the United States extended DST in 1987 to the first Sunday in April all DST observing Canadian provinces followed suit to mimic the change In 2019 the legislature of British Columbia began the process of eliminating the practice of observing daylight saving time in the province On October 31 2019 the government introduced Bill 40 in the legislature which would define Pacific Time as 7 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time UTC 24 In a press release the provincial government stated an intention to maintain alignment of clock time with Washington Oregon California and Yukon 25 The move follows a consultation earlier in 2019 in which the province received over 223 000 responses 93 of which said they would prefer year round DST as compared to the status quo of changing the clocks twice a year 26 27 28 The premier of British Columbia discussed the issue with Yukon premier Sandy Silver who said in October that he needs more consultation with Yukon stakeholders and with Alberta and Alaska 29 The latest United States change Energy Policy Act of 2005 to daylight saving time adding parts of March and November to when daylight saving time is observed which began in 2007 was adopted by the various provinces and territories on the following dates Ontario 30 and Manitoba 31 October 20 2005 Quebec December 5 2005 32 Prince Edward Island December 6 2005 33 New Brunswick December 23 2005 34 Alberta February 2 2006 35 Northwest Territories March 4 2006 36 British Columbia March 31 2006 37 Nova Scotia April 25 2006 38 Yukon July 14 2006 39 Year round MST as of March 8 2020 23 Newfoundland and Labrador November 20 2006 but officially announced on January 18 2007 40 Nunavut February 19 2007 41 Saskatchewan No official action was taken as almost all of the province remains on CST year round However the few places in the province that do observe daylight saving Lloydminster and the surrounding area which straddles the Alberta border and observes Alberta s Mountain Time and Creighton which observes daylight saving on an unofficial basis due to its proximity to the border with Manitoba follow the aforementioned March November schedule just like the other provinces and territories IANA time zone database EditData for Canada from zone tab of the IANA time zone database Columns marked with are the columns from zone tab itself C c Coordinates TZ Comments UTC offset UTC offset DST NotesCA 4734 05243 America St Johns Newfoundland Labrador southeast 03 30 02 30CA 4439 06336 America Halifax Atlantic NS most areas PE 04 00 03 00 Plus Magdalen Islands and Listuguj Miꞌgmaq First Nation in Quebec 42 CA 4612 05957 America Glace Bay Atlantic NS Cape Breton 04 00 03 00 Likely includes all of Cape Breton Island 43 CA 4606 06447 America Moncton Atlantic New Brunswick 04 00 03 00 Like America Halifax except DST time change happened at 12 01 a m rather than 2 00 a m prior to 2007 CA 5320 06025 America Goose Bay Atlantic Labrador most areas 04 00 03 00 Like America Halifax except DST time change happened at 12 01 a m rather than 2 00 a m from 1987 2011 Also observed Newfoundland Time until 1966 CA 5125 05707 America Blanc Sablon AST QC Lower North Shore 04 00 04 00 East of 63rd meridian west 42 CA America Montreal 05 00 04 00 Redirects to America Toronto as of version 2015c CA 4339 07923 America Toronto Eastern ON QC most areas Bahamas 05 00 04 00 Legally includes all of Ontario east of 90th meridian west but in practice only applied to urban areas until 1974 CA America Nipigon 05 00 04 00 Redirects to America Toronto as of version 2022f CA America Thunder Bay 05 00 04 00 Redirects to America Toronto as of version 2022f CA 6344 06828 America Iqaluit Eastern NU most areas 05 00 04 00CA America Pangnirtung 05 00 04 00 Places that switched from Atlantic Time to Eastern Time in 1995 CA 744144 0944945 America Resolute Central NU Resolute 06 00 05 00 Places in Central Time that skipped DST in 2007 CA 484531 0913718 America Atikokan EST ON Atikokan NU Coral H 05 00 05 00 Legally Central Time but in practice observes EST year round CA 624900 0920459 America Rankin Inlet Central NU central 06 00 05 00CA 4953 09709 America Winnipeg Central ON west Manitoba 06 00 05 00 In practice includes Big Trout Lake and Denare Beach though by law they should be in America Toronto and America Regina respectively CA America Rainy River 06 00 05 00 Redirects to America Winnipeg as of version 2022f CA 5024 10439 America Regina CST SK most areas 06 00 06 00CA 5017 10750 America Swift Current CST SK midwest 06 00 06 00 Western Saskatchewan towns that observed Mountain Time until 1972 CA 5333 11328 America Edmonton Mountain AB BC E SK W 07 00 06 00CA 690650 1050310 America Cambridge Bay Mountain NU west 07 00 06 00CA 6227 11421 America Yellowknife Mountain NT central 07 00 06 00 East of 120th meridian west 44 CA 682059 1334300 America Inuvik Mountain NT west 07 00 06 00 West of 120th meridian west 44 CA 4906 11631 America Creston MST BC Creston 07 00 07 00 Places in Pacific Time that have not observed DST since the database cut off date 1970 CA 5546 12014 America Dawson Creek MST BC Dawson Cr Ft St John 07 00 07 00 Places in Pacific Time that stopped using DST in 1973 CA 5848 12242 America Fort Nelson MST BC Ft Nelson 07 00 07 00CA 4916 12307 America Vancouver Pacific BC most areas 08 00 07 00CA 6043 13503 America Whitehorse MST Yukon east 07 00 07 00 East of 138th meridian west 45 CA 6404 13925 America Dawson MST Yukon west 07 00 07 00 West of 138th meridian west 45 See also EditLists of time zones Newfoundland s Daylight Saving Act of 1917 1972 British Columbia time plebiscite Effects of time zones on North American broadcasting National Research Council Time Signal Date and time notation in CanadaNotes Edit Prairie Creek Airport operated by Canadian Zinc located in southwest NWT is shown as observing PST PDT North of Sixty Fishing Camps Obre Lake North of Sixty Airport and Kasba Lake Lodge Kasba Lake Airport are shown as operating on CST CDT 1 References Edit a b Canada Flight Supplement Effective 0901Z 16 July 2020 to 0901Z 10 September 2020 Creet Mario 1990 Sandford Fleming and Universal Time Scientia Canadensis Canadian Journal of the History of Science Technology and Medicine 14 1 2 66 89 doi 10 7202 800302ar NRC time services National Research Council Archived from the original on 20 July 2018 Retrieved 20 July 2018 National Assembly 1 January 2007 Legal Time Act 2006 Retrieved 21 September 2020 Minister of Justice 26 February 2015 Interpretation Act R S C 1985 PDF Retrieved 21 September 2020 This Act R S C 1985 c I 21 section 35 1 refers to standard time for the several provinces defining each in relation to Greenwich time but does not use the expression Greenwich mean time Alberta Queen s Printer 1 January 2007 Daylight Saving Time Act RSA 2000 Retrieved 21 September 2020 Queen s 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