The Yukon, Canada's furthest west territory, now has its own time zone: Yukon Standard Time. As we noted last fall, the Yukon territory moved to what was Pacific Daylight Time year round. That time is now identified as Yukon Standard Time, aka UTC−7.
The people of Dawson City and elsewhere in the territory didn't change the time on their clocks over the weekend, like most of North America. Until early November, Yukon and most of British Columbia are on the same time and an hour behind most of Alaska.
Yukon Standard Time is the same time as Mountain Standard Time. Yukon is now an hour behind most of Alberta since that province recognises daylight saving time.
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Most of Saskatchewan does not change the time on clocks. Saskatchewan is on Central Standard Time year round. The spring and summer has Saskatchewan on the same time as Calgary and Edmonton and an hour behind Winnipeg.
The discussion over changing the status quo has been to switch to daylight time permanently. The dark winter mornings may not matter in the Yukon but they will matter in points further south.
The vast majority of Europeans switch to summer time 2 weeks after North America makes the move. Summer time ends a week before North America. There is talk about whether those European countries will keep summer time or not change their clocks after this fall.
North America switched to mid-March in 2007 to "save energy." Previously, the switch happened in early April and before in late April. We think people would be less upset about switching the clocks if the continent went back to April.
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