On November 1, 2026, British Columbia, Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Manitoba stop changing their clocks and stay on daylight time all year. Windows has added new time zones for these provinces, but some web browsers, including Google Chrome, don't recognize them yet. When your computer uses one of the new zones, your browser's clock runs an hour behind.
Because this happens in the browser, it affects every website that shows times in your local time zone, not just Nektar. You may notice the same hour difference in web apps such as Gmail, Google Calendar and Outlook on the web. In Nektar, created and recorded dates can show an hour early, and times you enter can be saved an hour off.
Your data is safe: Nektar stores every time in UTC, and we've already updated our servers for the new rules. What's left is a setting on your computer. Until browsers are updated, you can fix it in a couple of minutes by temporarily choosing a different Windows time zone with the same offset, and it fixes those other websites too.
Who is affected
You're affected if your Windows computer is set to one of these time zones:
(UTC-07:00) Pacific Time (British Columbia)
(UTC-06:00) Mountain Time (Alberta)
(UTC-05:00) Manitoba
When you're affected, Nektar's sign-in page shows a banner saying your browser doesn't support Windows' new time zones yet.
Fix it
Open Windows Settings and go to Time & language > Date & time.
Turn off Set time zone automatically, so Windows doesn't switch you back.
In Time zone, choose the replacement zone from the table below.
Close and reopen your browser.
Sign out of Nektar and sign back in.
Where you are | Current time zone | Change to |
British Columbia | (UTC-07:00) Pacific Time (British Columbia) | (UTC-07:00) Yukon |
Alberta and the Northwest Territories | (UTC-06:00) Mountain Time (Alberta) | (UTC-06:00) Saskatchewan |
Manitoba | (UTC-05:00) Manitoba | (UTC-05:00) Chetumal |
The replacement zones have the same offset as your province all year, so your computer's clock keeps showing the right time.
Switching to a time zone with a fixed offset is the interim workaround Microsoft itself recommends while the new zones roll out. See Microsoft's guidance for British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba.
Note for Manitoba: Microsoft's guidance suggests (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) with Adjust for daylight saving time automatically turned off. We recommend (UTC-05:00) Chetumal instead because it gives the same offset with nothing else to change: Chetumal is UTC-5 all year, so there's no daylight saving setting to remember, and no chance of your clock shifting next spring.
Note: Don't choose (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada), (UTC-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada) or (UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada). Those zones follow the United States' daylight saving rules and turn your clock back an hour on November 1.
What to expect
Current and future times show correctly throughout Nektar, and times you enter are saved correctly.
Times from past winters, before November 2026, may show an hour late, because the replacement zones don't know your province used to change its clocks.
Anywhere a time zone name appears, you may see Yukon, Saskatchewan or Chetumal instead of your province.
Switching back
We'll update this article once browsers recognize the new zones. Then change your time zone back to your province's zone from the table, turn Set time zone automatically back on if you used it, and sign out of Nektar and back in.