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daylight-saving time

daylight-saving time is the alternative form of daylight saving time.

Meaning of daylight saving time

Noun

daylight saving time (countable and uncountable, plural daylight saving times)

  1. The practice in some places of adjusting clocks forward in the spring and back in the fall, usually by one hour, so that the adjustment causes the time to coincide with the greatest period of illumination by the sun over the course of the day.
    • 2005: answers.firstgov.gov -- Daylight Saving Time is a change in the standard time of each time zone. ... The American law by which we turn our clock forward in the spring and back in the fall is known as the Uniform Time Act of 1966. The law does not require that anyone observe Daylight Saving...
    Synonyms:
    summer time

Forms of daylight-saving time

pluraldaylight-saving times

Questions about daylight-saving time

What is daylight-saving time the alternative form of?
Daylight-saving time is the alternative form of daylight saving time.

Words near daylight-saving time in the dictionary

  1. daylight savings
  2. daylight savings time
  3. daylight savings times
  4. daylight standard time
  5. daylight time
  6. daylight-saving time
  7. daylight-saving times
  8. daylight-savings time
  9. daylight-savings times
  10. daylighted
  11. daylighter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: daylight-saving time (page history and authors); daylight saving time (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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