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daylight savings time

daylight savings 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 savings time

pluraldaylight savings times

Questions about daylight savings time

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

Words near daylight savings time in the dictionary

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

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