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Interim guidance for Alberta time zone changes 2026
It is patently embarrassing how badly you fumbled this change, Microsoft.
Teams for Desktop and MS Edge both show the wrong times when I'm in the new Alberta Time Zone. Fortunately, I can get by with the Saskatchewan time zone, but I feel sorry for the BC folks left holding the bag because you choose AI slop and firing QA teams over the stewardship of your users.
Honestly, shame on you. This should have been released months ago for testing, and it should have been tested more in house. The fact that Microsoft-built applications are pulling the wrong time zones says that no internal testing was done by competent people, just more of the same AI slop beta code foisted on paying customers.
The promise of the Microsoft platform has always been "use only our products and everything should work" and although that was never really true, it's never been more false.