British Columbia will be making the shift to permanent Daylight Saving Time this year. The BC Government announced the changes on Monday, March 2nd, and said that when clocks move forward by one hour on March 8th, it will be for the last time.
This change means British Columbia will now have one year-round time zone, known as Pacific Time (UTC-7), which will be fixed seven hours behind coordinated universal time. Pacific Time is aligned with the Yukon time zone year round, and will match Alberta and other Mountain Standard Time regions mountain from November through to March.
There will be no changes in regions of BC that have already adopted Mountain Standard Time locally, or that alternate between Mountain Standard Time and Mountain Daylight Time, although the Province notes that the time realignment should improve the quality of life in the time zone border regions by making time differences less extreme throughout the year.
Clocks in the Pacific Time zone will not fall back by an hour on November 1st, 2026.
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