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In the United States and Canada, the Mountain Time Zone is to the east of the Pacific Time Zone and to the west of the Central Time Zone. In some areas, starting in 2007, the local time changes from MST to MDT at 2 am MST to 3 am MDT on the second Sunday in March and returns at 2 am MDT to 1 am MST on the first Sunday in November.
UTC−07:00 – Mountain Time zone: most of Idaho, part of Oregon, and the Mountain states plus western parts of some adjacent states UTC−06:00 – Central Time zone: a large area spanning from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes
Standard Time (SDT) and Daylight Saving Time (DST) offsets from UTC in hours and minutes. For zones in which Daylight Saving is not observed, the DST offset shown in this table is a simple duplication of the SDT offset.
America/Creston MST - BC (Creston) −07:00: −07:00: Redirects to America/Phoenix Places in Pacific Time that have not observed DST since the database cut-off date (1970) 6446092 on OpenStreetMap: CA +5546−12014 America/Dawson_Creek MST - BC (Dawson Cr, Ft St John) −07:00: −07:00: Places in Mountain Time that stopped using DST in 1973
That is to keep clocks on the Saskatchewan side in synchronization with those on the Alberta side since Alberta mandates the use of daylight saving time province-wide. Along the Manitoba border the small, remote Saskatchewan towns of Denare Beach and Creighton unofficially observe Central Daylight Time during the summer to keep the same time as ...
Alberta's capital is Edmonton, while Calgary is its largest city. [11] The two are Alberta's largest census metropolitan areas. [12] More than half of Albertans live in either Edmonton or Calgary, which contributes to continuing the rivalry between the two cities. English is the official language of the province.
In 1912, the first law was passed that called for the use of standard time.This law left the choice of time zone up to the municipal government. The result was a patchwork of towns following either of the two neighbouring time zones—Mountain Standard Time (MST) or Central Standard Time—with or without daylight saving time.
Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. [2] Located in Western Canada, the province has an area of 661,190 km 2 (255,290 sq mi) and is bounded to the south by the United States state of Montana along 49° north for 298 km (185 mi); to the east at 110° west by the province of Saskatchewan for 1,223 km (760 mi); and at 60° north the Northwest Territories for 644 km ...