Beginning November 1, 2026, Alberta will adopt permanent Alberta Time (ABT) and eliminate the practice of semi-annual clock changes. Key Connect Care impacts to be aware of as of November 1:
- Connect Care scheduling should not be affected. However, as unanticipated effects are still possible, please remain vigilant for unintended 1-hour shifts of appointments, timed medication administrations, etc.
- Due to an issue with how the new time zone has been set by some mobile carriers, device manufacturers are needing to fix the time zone to align with Epic’s access requirements for the Haiku mobility app. This fix is unfortunately not expected until after November 1, and will likely be different for each manufacturer. In the meantime, it is recommended that prescribers using Haiku click to accept the time zone warning that may appear on personal (BYOD) devices when logging in to Haiku. This will allow automated time zone updates to continue, and no future action will be needed once the device manufacturer implements the fix. While users can temporarily manually adjust their device’s time zone to “Americas, City: Edmonton”, this would cause issues if travelling into another time zone, and would require future action once the device manufacturer implements the fix.
- Patients may unintentionally arrive for appointments 1 hour off, as a result of unintentional time shift impacts to their own calendar/schedule software.
Further details of impacts of the time zone change, such as actions required to adjust post-November 1 Outlook and Teams calendar events, are available and regularly updated on Insite:
