{"id":953302,"date":"2026-10-31T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T15:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953302\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T15:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T15:48:11","slug":"clocks-from-coast-to-coast-to-coast-a-breakdown-of-time-change-rules-across-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953302\/","title":{"rendered":"Clocks from coast to coast to coast: A breakdown of time change rules across Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the eastern half of Canada switch their clocks back on Sunday, while the western half will not this year. Here\u2019s a look at the breakdown of what it means to residents:<\/p>\n<p>British Columbia<\/p>\n<p>Announced in March that it was moving to permanent Pacific daylight time. The change also means that parts of northeastern B.C., which have been on mountain standard time year-round, are now in alignment with the rest of the province. It will be aligned with Washington State in the summer months and one hour ahead in winter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Alberta<\/p>\n<p>Located in the mountain time zone, also switched to permanent daylight time this year. The province calls it Alberta time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Saskatchewan<\/p>\n<p>On permanent central standard time since 1966.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Manitoba <\/p>\n<p>Will be sticking with daylight time in the central time zone, meaning it won\u2019t be aligned with the other Prairie provinces and will stay one hour ahead. The province will be on the same time as Ontario and Quebec in the winter and one hour behind in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Ontario<\/p>\n<p>Passed a law in 2020 to end the twice-yearly changing of clocks and make daylight time permanent \u2014 but only if Quebec and New York agree to do the same. Earlier this month, the province published a regulation leaving a portion of the northwest on year-round time in alignment with Manitoba.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Quebec<\/p>\n<p>Premier Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says his government intends to abolish the time change. He said on Oct. 28 that the province hasn\u2019t yet decided whether to keep daylight time or standard time year-round.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Atlantic provinces<\/p>\n<p>In 2022 decided to hold off on any move toward dropping the time change until they saw what neighbouring jurisdictions would do.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Yukon<\/p>\n<p>Moved to end time changes in 2020. The territory observes mountain standard time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Northwest Territories<\/p>\n<p>Followed Alberta\u2019s lead earlier this year to end seasonal time changes. The territory is on permanent daylight time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Nunavut<\/p>\n<p>Spans three time zones; continues to change clocks twice a year except for Southampton Island.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/editorial-guidelines\" class=\"editorial-guidelines-link d-block mb-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            INSAUGA Canada&#8217;s Editorial Standards and Policies        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last 30 Days: 48,581 Votes<\/p>\n<p>All Time: 1,600,682 Votes<\/p>\n<p>    1808 VOTES<br \/>\n    Are you happy with the election results in your town or city?    <\/p>\n<p>\tStay in the know.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe now to receive our daily email of today\u2019s top stories in your city!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much of the eastern half of Canada switch their clocks back on Sunday, while the western half will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-953302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}