Daylight saving time in Canada

Canadian daylight saving time
Canadian daylight saving time
Observed by	Alberta; British Columbia (mostly); Manitoba; New Brunswick; Newfoundland and Labrador; Northwest Territories; Nova Scotia; Nunavut (mostly); Ontario (mostly); Prince Edward Island; Quebec (mostly); Saskatchewan (partly);
Begins	Second Sunday in March
Ends	First Sunday in November
2023 date	March 12 – November 5
First time	1908
Related to	Daylight saving time

In Canada, daylight saving time (DST) is observed in nine of the country's ten provinces and two of its three territories—though with exceptions in parts of several provinces and Nunavut.

Under the Canadian Constitution, laws related to timekeeping are a provincial and territorial matter. Most of Saskatchewan, despite geographically being in the Mountain Time Zone, observes year-round Central Standard Time (CST). In 2020, Yukon abandoned seasonal time change and moved to permanently observe year-round Mountain Standard Time (MST).

In the regions of Canada that use daylight saving time, it begins on the second Sunday of March at 2 a.m. and ends on the first Sunday in November at 2 a.m. As a result, daylight saving time lasts in Canada for a total of 34 weeks (238 days) every year, about 65 percent of the entire year.

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