How many time zones are there in Canada?
Canada has six time zones:
• Newfoundland Time
• Atlantic Time
• Eastern Time
• Central Time
• Mountain Time
• Pacific Time
In majority of the areas in Canada, Daylight Saving Time starts at 2:00 am, on March’s second Sunday. The Daylight Saving Time returns to Standard Time at 2:00 am on the first Sunday in the month of November. The clock turns one hour ahead during Daylight Saving Time.
The Daylight Saving Time in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador starts a minute after 12 midnight i.e. at 12:01 am local time on a March second Sunday. The areas having Daylight Saving Time come back to the Standard Time on November’s first Sunday at one minute past midnight local time.
The names change in each of the time zones in accordance with Daylight Saving Time. The Eastern Standard Time (EST) changes to Eastern Daylight Time (EDT. The regions in Canada which do not use Daylight Saving Time are Charlie Lake, Fort St. John, Taylor and Dawson Creek located in British Columbia, majority of the places in Saskatchewan and Creston situated in the East Kootenays. Saskatchewan falls in the Central Time Zone and does not follow Daylight Saving Time, save in Lloydminster which observes Mountain Time.
Earlier Canada was used to observing Daylight Saving Time from April’s first Sunday to the last Sunday of October. The legislation that was passed in 2006 made the changes to March through November.
