daylight-saving time

day·light-sav·ing time (dlt-svng) or day·light-sav·ings time (-vngz)

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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daylight-saving time

Noun

time set one hour ahead of the local standard time, to provide extra daylight in the evening in summer

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daylight-saving time  (dlt-svng) or daylight-savings time

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. First proposed by Benjamin Franklin, daylight saving time was instituted in various countries during both world wars in the 20th century and was made permanent in most of the United States beginning in 1973. Arizona, Hawaii, most of eastern Indiana, and certain US territories and possessions do not observe daylight saving time.

Thesaurus

Noun

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

Translations

daylight-saving time day (US) n → Sommerzeit f