On Mon, 20 Apr 2026 at 16:03, Chris Walton via tz <
tz@iana.org> wrote:
Yes; it seems like Alberta will likely adopt year-round UTC-06.
If it happens, the entire province would be on permanent Central Standard Time (same as Saskatchewan).
This has not been legislated yet, so it is too early to make any database changes.
Bill 31, the Red Tape Reduction Statutes Amendment Act, 2026, was introduced in Alberta's Legislative Assembly today (Thursday 23 April) for First Reading.
As an omnibus bill, the text covers many topics, but the portion pertaining to timekeeping begins on printed page 15 (PDF page 17):
It would repeal the Daylight Saving Time Act in the Revised Statues of Alberta 2000 Chapter D-5:
…and substitutes a new chapter with language that closely parallels the original. The new title is the Official Time Act and would be numbered Chapter O-5.7.
As expected, the bill would establish a standard time of UTC−6 without replacing the language previously used to effectuate DST. Although the Calgary Herald article reported that Premier Danielle Smith had expressed preference for the name "Alberta Time", the bill uses the term "official time", while allowing the Lieutenant Governor in Council to make regulations "prescribing a term other than 'official time' by which official time may be known".
Similarly to the 2019 legislation in British Columbia which was effectuated by an Order in Council in March 2026, the bill does not specify a transition time itself, but rather delegates regulatory authority to the Lieutenant Governor in Council to "provid[e] for any transitional matters arising under this Act" and amend other regulations to conform. The relevant section "comes into force on Proclamation", so we would expect an Order in Council to bring about those implementation details sometime after Royal Assent.