Time
Vancouver is in the Pacific time zone, eight hours ahead of Greenwich, or Universal Coordinated Time (UCT). When it's midnight in London, England, it's 4pm Pacific Time. That's during Standard Time, which runs from the last Sunday each October to the last Saturday in April. During Daylight Savings Time, from the last Sunday in April to the last Saturday of October, Vancouver is seven hours ahead of UCT.

You can see Vancouver's time in relation to most cities on the globe by visiting www.TimeAndDate.com, which also can provide a Canadian calendar.

Workdays
Greater Vancouver, like all major cities, runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The main workdays are Monday to Friday, from roughly 8am to 6pm - but hours vary for each organization or business. Retailers are usually open seven days a week, and most stores are open from 9:30am to 6pm each day-except Thursday and Friday, when they are open until 9pm. A number of large retail stores, nearly every hotel and motel, and several restaurants, remain open around the clock.

See also Holidays in our Travel Tips section for our statutory holiday dates each year.