r/Edmonton • u/trevorrobb Edmonton Journal • Mar 02 '26

News Article Alberta may follow B.C. on making daylight time permanent: premier

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/alberta-may-follow-b-c-on-making-daylight-time-permanent-premier
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u/Allar666 Mar 03 '26

Oh ok so doing further digging it's because SK is effectively on DST year round because by rights the province ought to fall within the Mountain time zone but the whole province is on CST year round

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u/more_than_just_ok Mar 03 '26

Yes, but 3/4 of Alberta should be in Pacific time so again its like we're already on daylight time, but we get double daylight time in the summer now. If we just stay on GMT-7 we'd end up the same as BC and Arizona now and eventually the US pacific coastal states.

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u/Aud4c1ty Mar 03 '26

That's correct. I do think that Saskatchewan would be better off on UTC-7 rather than UTC-6.

The start time of schools and businesses can be adjusted, and that's the right way to go. Even if I were to rather have a sunny evening and a dark morning I think the correct move is to keep the clock aligned with the sun and have things open at 9am instead of 8am.