Talk:Time in Saskatchewan

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—Yamara ✉  17:49, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

The Saskatchewan time zone debate surfaces twice a year. Perhaps more often now that the energy act in the United States has lengthened Daylight Saving Time in the United States, but not all locations have followed suit. There are typically four sides to the argument between those that want to be on Mountain Time or Central Time, with or without Daylight Saving Time.

I was brief with the early (pre-1966) history of time in Saskatchewan. There were a lot of changes and they were irrelevant to the current situation. Lehri 02:59, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

I have been asked about saving electricity with Daylight Savings Time. I think Saskatchewan offers a perfect example. Assuming that you change your clocks, and not your habits (like bed time). All summer, LLydminster and nearby North Battleford are on the same schedule. In the winter, Lloydminster "falls back" an hour, while North Battleford does not. On average, during the winter sunset is at approximately 7:00 PM in North Battleford 6:00 PM in Lloydminster. All winter, the people of Lloydminster will turn their lights on one hour earlier than the people of North Battleford. A 100 Watt bulb that is on for one extra hour per day will consume an extra 3 KiloWatt Hours of electricity per month.

Article Cleanup
This article is in desparate need of a cleanup. Also, Saskatchewan does not have its own time zone, so this article should not be called "Saskatchewan Time Zone." Instead, like most other articles dealing with time issues in municipalities, this article should be moved to Time in Saskatchewan. What do y'all think? -Jondude11 06:04, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

As per the precidents set by other pages, I agree. I will change the name, and update the entry to include reference to "Sasktachewan time zone".Lehri 03:38, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

The introduction is wrong. A place is either in a time zone, or it is not -- it is not "in one time zone" and "geographically in another." Saskatchewan observes Central Standard Time, so it is in the Central time zone. It just doesn't do daylight savings time. By extension, to say that it observes DST all year round is effectively meaningless. The article is *still* in need of cleanup. --Rhombus (talk) 20:04, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Pre 1912
The first time law passed by the Legislature may have been in 1912, but I'd be very surprised if local mean time was used before that. The railways had been using standard time for as long as there had been railways in Sask. (1882?), so I'm sure each town used whatever standard time zone the nearest railway was using. Indefatigable 19:29, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I am willing to entertain that. The pre 1912 information came from the "time" folder in the Legislature library and is as accurate as the historian that compiled it. I quote it, but cannot verify it. What people did before the laws were passed is guess work and assumptions. On the other hand, anything is possible. I didn't bother writing down every detail, but I recall that a trip across Saskatchewan (pre 1966) would take you back and forth between Central and Mountain tim zones at the whim of the municipal government in tiny alliances with neighboring towns. Imagine that train trip.Lehri 03:17, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Timezone change?
I'm in the process of modifying a web site for a Saskatchewan hockey team. Apparently while they observe CST year round, they annotate it as 'CST' during standard time and 'MDT' during daylight savings time. So the time doesn't change but the zone does. 74.116.191.83 (talk) 01:31, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Time in Saskatchewan; Clarifying things succinctly in 1 short paragraph
I am a SK resident; I was spawned into action to write something here - all because my Telescope asked me a simple question as part of it's alignment process and I didn't know how to answer. It asked me two simple questions; what time zone I am in (Sk wasn't explicitly listed), and whether DST was "ON or OFF". Um.....DST On or off?? We never change our clocks, so I have never had to answer that question before...I got confused and could not answer that question easily. I ended up spending a 1/2 hour doing research online to understand it. I would like to see something succinct in this article similar the following that might help other people, who need a "one paragraph comprehensive explanation" to the question of Saskatchewan, Time zones, and Daylight Savings Time. So here goes...

"Daylight Savings Time is a summer practice observed by many North American districts - of moving clocks forward an hour (then back again in the fall). While DST is practiced in most areas of North America (i.e. activated; turned "ON" during the summer) Saskatchewan chose not to partake in this practice of moving clocks back and forth twice per year. In Saskatchewan therefore, Daylight Savings time is not used; It is always "OFF". Saskatchewan therefore observes CST - Central Standard time (GMT-6), and does -NOT- observe Daylight Savings Time at any point in the calendar year. What does this mean for Saskatchewan relative to all it's neighbors that turn DST "ON" each the summer? With exceptions of a couple near -border settlements, residents of Saskatchewan don't ever change their clocks, but everyone around them does. Because everyone else changes and Saskatchewan does not, it ends up being unique. Relative to its neighbors, time in the province "appears" to shift from one time zone to another - each spring and fall. Saskatchewan shares the same time with it's neighbors to the WEST over the summer months (i.e. Mountain Standard Time [MST] when their DST is turned ON); Saskatchewan then shares the same time as our neighbors to the EAST over the winter months from ~ November to March. (i.e. observing at this point the same Central Standard Time zone with DST turned "OFF" - which is what Saskatchewan observes all year long). In summary, Saskatchewan observes Central Standard Time all year long, with Daylight Savings time ALWAYS turned "OFF" (and the only item that makes time in Saskathchewan unique from it's neighbors is DST "OFF" year round)."

174.2.193.196 (talk) 15:54, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

I agree with your summary except to say Daylight Savings Time is a summer practice observed by many North American districts - of moving clocks forward an hour (then back again in the fall). While DST is practiced in most areas of North America (i.e. activated; turned "ON" during the summer) Saskatchewan chose not to partake in this practice of moving clocks back and forth twice per year. In Saskatchewan therefore, Daylight Savings time is not used. It is always "OFF". Although Saskatchewan is west enough to be in the Mountain Time zone, it uses CST - Central Standard time (GMT-6), and does -NOT- observe Daylight Savings Time at any point in the calendar year. What does this mean for Saskatchewan relative to all its neighbors that turn DST "ON" each the summer? With exceptions of a couple near-border settlements, residents of Saskatchewan do not ever change their clocks, but everyone around them does. Because everyone else changes and Saskatchewan does not, it ends up being unique. Relative to its neighbors, time in the province "appears" to shift from one time zone to another - each spring and fall. Saskatchewan shares the same time with Alberta, its neighbor to the west, over the summer months (i.e. Mountain Standard Time [MST] when Alberta's DST is in effect); Saskatchewan then shares the same time as Manitoba to the east during the winter months from ~ November to March. (i.e. both Saskatchewan and Manitoba observing the same time --Central Standard Time zone with DST not in effect - which is what Saskatchewan observes all year long but Manitoba does only in winter). In summary, Saskatchewan observes Central Standard Time all year long, with Daylight Savings time never in effect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:3D09:887C:7B70:0:0:0:6A17 (talk) 20:07, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Time in Creighton
The article states 'This has some interesting side effects - for example, liquor establishments in Creighton are able to stay open one hour later than establishments in Flin Flon whilst CDT is in effect since a liquor establishment in Creighton can only be bound to observe CST by provincial law'. Due to my last name (Creighton) I have had an interest in their TZ practice. And when I was last in Creighton, more than 35 years ago, part of the rationale for switching to CDT in violation of Saskatchewan law (which was a source of civic pride)  was to keep the same liquor hours as Flin Flon. There was much talk of how keeping CST would mean that drunken Manitobans wanting an hours worth more of drinking would become highway hazards and the like. Now, of course, this will only work if liquor-serving establishments kept to the CDT legal hours, as if they were part of Manitoba.. And as far as I know, they did at the time. I'd like to hear from somebody who has lived there over the time to find out -- is my memory correct that they used to do this? And if so, have they stopped? When?

Lacreighton (talk) 13:24, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

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