Issue with Brightspace date and time display

What has changed?

Quiz and assignment dates with a due and end date during the period previously affected by daylight saving time. For example November 8, 2026 at 11:59 PM, may now appear one hour later than instructors originally intended on the main Quiz/Assignment summary page. In some cases, an activity that is set to end at 11:59 PM may now appear as ending at 12:59 AM the following day.

Why is the issue occuring?

The issue is occurring because Brightspace’s servers have been updated with the new BC time zone information, but some Chromium-based browsers, including Chrome and Microsoft Edge, have not yet received the same update.

This can result in:

• different times appearing on different Brightspace pages
• different times being displayed depending on which browser is used
• instructors seeing one time while students see another

Unfortunately, there is no process to automatically revert dates affected by this date/time handling change. This is an known issue that D2L Brightspace is actively tracking.

How to address the issue

To address this issue, please check any date-bound activity information in your Fall 2026 Brightspace page(s), such as Quizzes, Assignments, etc, to ensure that correct dates and times are displayed. If there is a discrepancy, use the Firefox browser to update the activity to the correct time.

We recommend using Firefox to set all date/time information until a Chromium patch has been released.