Canada's Time Zones Get Even More Confusing

Canada's battle with the clock is creating a new kind of time-zone tangle. Manitoba has decided to stay on daylight time year-round, joining British Columbia, Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and long-unchanging Saskatchewan in ditching seasonal clock shifts. That simplifies life for many residents but leaves a chunk of northwestern Ontario stranded, the CBC reports. This winter it will sit one hour behind both Winnipeg to the west and Thunder Bay to the east, effectively in its own time zone.

Canada already had quirks, with Newfoundland 30 minutes ahead of the rest of Atlantic Canada and Nunavut spanning three time zones. Ontario passed a law in 2020 to end clock changes too, but it will only take effect if Quebec and New York make the same move.

• In the US, meanwhile, the Sunshine Protection Act passed the House 308-117 in July but is stalled in the Senate weeks before clocks are due to go back on Nov. 1, USA Today reports. Some 19 states have passed laws to make daylight saving time permanent, but those laws can't take effect without change at the federal level. Arizona and Hawaii are on permanent standard time.