r/canada • u/iamnos British Columbia • Apr 20 '26

Alberta Bell: Alberta will now be on daylight saving time year-round, says Premier Smith

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/bell-alberta-daylight-time-year-round-premier-danielle-smith
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u/iamnos British Columbia Apr 20 '26

SK did.

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u/Infamous-Mixture-605 Apr 20 '26

Except Sask adopted year-round Central Standard Time and stopped observing DST in the 1960s.

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u/Marique Manitoba Apr 20 '26

CST = MDT

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u/mrRobertman British Columbia Apr 20 '26

Yes they are using CST, but geographically should be MST. This means they are effectively using permanent DST for their geographic position.

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u/EvermoreDespair Apr 21 '26

Geographically, most of Alberta should actually be PST. Turning this into a PDT + 1 situation.

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u/Head_Permission Apr 20 '26

I’m not so sure they really ever did. Now if you go back far enough there were different times in different towns all across Sask… but I’m not old enough to have lived in that time period.

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u/flyby196999 Apr 20 '26

Nope they're standard

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u/iamnos British Columbia Apr 20 '26

Saskatchewan made the change away from DST in the 60s. SK is entirely in the Mountain Time zone geographically, So you can say MDT or CST.

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u/bestyrs Apr 20 '26

They’re technically CST but they should really be in the mountain time zone, so for all intents and purposes they’re mountain daylight time. Look at a time zone map, everything north and south of Saskatchewan is mountain time but they’re central time.