day·light-sav·ing time

(dā′līt-sā′vĭng) or day·light-sav·ings time (-vĭngz)

n. Abbr. DST

Time during which clocks are set one hour or more ahead of standard time to provide more daylight at the end of the working day during late spring, summer, and early fall.

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Noun

daylight-savings time - time during which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time; widely adopted during summer to provide extra daylight in the evenings

daylight saving, daylight savings, daylight-saving time

time - the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past

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References in periodicals archive

Cairo: The Egyptian government Monday cancelled a controversial plan for applying the daylight-savings time this summer in response to the parliament's demand.

Egypt scuttles disputed daylight-savings plan

* While Israeli law has long switched the country to daylight-savings time before Yom Kippur to make fasting easier, the holiday's earliness this year brought the separation-of-synagogue-and-state issue into high relief.

Sundown: Much Talk, Little Peace

Summary: BEIRUT: Daylight-savings time returns at midnight March 27-28, when Lebanese will advance their clocks by an hour, the Cabinet's secretary general, Suhail Bouji, said in a statement on Monday.

Clocks to be set one hour forward on March 28

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