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Clocks from coast to coast to coast: A breakdown of time change rules across Canada
Several provinces have ended seasonal clock changes, while others still wait for neighbors to coordinate, leaving Canada with a patchwork of time rules.
- Much of eastern Canada will switch clocks back on Sunday, while the western half will not this year, revealing persistent divisions among provinces and territories on permanent time policies.
- Alberta switched to permanent daylight time this year, while Saskatchewan has maintained permanent central standard time since 1966, and earlier this month a province published a regulation aligning a portion of its northwest with Manitoba on year-round time.
- Ontario passed legislation in 2020 to end time changes, though implementation depends on coordination with New York and Quebec, where the government intends to abolish the time change but has not yet decided whether to keep daylight time or standard time year-round.
- Atlantic provinces remain cautious, having decided in 2022 to hold off on any move toward dropping the time change until they saw what neighbouring jurisdictions would do.
- The country's patchwork approach leaves some regions aligned with neighbours while others operate on distinct schedules, as clocks continue to turn back in regions maintaining the traditional twice-yearly shift.
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Millions of Canadians are turning their clocks back an hour this weekend due to winter time, but millions of other Canadians are leaving their clocks untouched. More and more Canadian provinces are abolishing winter time. In British Columbia, in western Canada, summer time was recently chosen as the standard time, which means that residents will not be turning their clocks back this weekend for the first time. Alberta, Manitoba, and western par…
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Clocks from coast to coast to coast: A breakdown of time change rules across Canada
Much of the eastern half of Canada switch their clocks back on Sunday, while the western half will not this year. Here's a look at the breakdown of what it means to residents:
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