Time to spring forward? It depends where you live

Tara Carman · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 07, 2025 4:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

In B.C. and Ontario, there's been nationalist chatter astir doing distant with clip changes for years. In Saskatchewan, astir radical person ne'er changed their clocks. Here's a primer connected wherever each of the provinces and territories stand.

British Columbia passed authorities successful 2019 to determination to year-round daylight clip "at a clip that maintains alignment with Washington, Oregon, California and Yukon," the B.C. authorities said successful a media release. There are parts of B.C. that bash not alteration their clocks: the northeastern Peace portion and the southeastern municipality of Creston. They are aligned with Alberta (Mountain Standard Time) successful the wintertime and B.C. (Pacific Daylight Time) successful the summer. 

Alberta held a binding referendum connected Oct. 18, 2021, connected whether to proceed changing clocks doubly a year. Albertans voted 50.2 per cent successful favour of continuing the practice.

Saskatchewan does not alteration its clocks and remains connected Central Standard Time year-round, meaning it's aligned with Alberta successful the summertime and Manitoba successful the winter. Only the metropolis of Lloydminster, which straddles the provincial borderline betwixt Alberta and Saskatchewan, follows Mountain Standard Time successful the winter.

Manitoba introduced legislation to follow imperishable daylight clip successful 2022, but lone if the U.S. does truthful arsenic well. 

Ontario passed legislation successful 2020 to follow imperishable daylight time, but lone if Quebec and New York authorities bash truthful arsenic well. 

Quebec held an online nationalist consultation about whether to abolish clip changes and which strategy to adopt, successful the autumn and wintertime of 2024. Officials are reviewing the responses, the Quebec Ministry of Justice said successful a statement.

Atlantic premiers mused publicly astir adopting imperishable daylight clip successful 2022, but said they would not prosecute it unless others instrumentality the lead, noting that immoderate alteration would apt impact the full region.

Yukon moved to imperishable daylight time (now called Yukon Time) successful 2020 and nary longer changes the clocks. It is aligned with Alberta successful the wintertime and B.C. successful the summer.

Northwest Territories held a public consultation connected whether to extremity clip changes successful 2022. Survey respondents voted 87 per cent successful favour of abolishing the changes, with conscionable implicit fractional (53.2 per cent) voting to enactment connected daylight clip year-round. The territorial authorities has yet to denote whether it volition marque the transition. 

Nunavut changes its clocks doubly a year, but for Southampton Island, which remains connected Eastern Standard Time year-round.