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Daylight Saving in Canada

Canada follows the US schedule, with several provinces and territories opting out.

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The current rule

Most of Canada moves forward at 2:00 a.m. local on the second Sunday in March and back at 2:00 a.m. local on the first Sunday in November, matching the United States. The alignment is deliberate and commercially important: a mismatch would put Toronto and New York, or Vancouver and Seattle, an hour apart for several weeks a year.

Who stays put

Most of Saskatchewan stays on Central Standard Time all year and does not change. Yukon stopped observing daylight saving in 2020 and now sits permanently on UTC-07:00, which it calls Yukon Standard Time. Parts of British Columbia, Quebec and Nunavut also have local exemptions, along with a handful of communities in Ontario near the Manitoba border.

Newfoundland's half hour

Newfoundland runs on UTC-03:30, half an hour offset from Atlantic Time, and observes daylight saving on the standard schedule to become UTC-02:30 in summer. It is one of a small number of places worldwide on a thirty-minute offset, and a reliable source of bugs in software that assumes time zones come in whole hours.

Common questions

Does Saskatchewan change its clocks?
No. Most of Saskatchewan stays on Central Standard Time year round.
Why does Canada change on US dates?
To keep trade, travel and broadcast schedules aligned. Canada amended its rules in 2007 to match the American change.