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Pacific Standard Time

Pacific Standard Time proper noun: the time zone that encompasses the west coast of the United States, Baja California in Mexico, and formerly, British Columbia and Yukon in Canada from the first Sunday of November to the second Sunday of March; it is eight hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-8).

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Proper noun

Pacific Standard Time

  1. The time zone that encompasses the west coast of the United States, Baja California in Mexico, and formerly, British Columbia and Yukon in Canada from the first Sunday of November to the second Sunday of March; it is eight hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-8).

Synonyms of Pacific Standard Time

Questions about Pacific Standard Time

What does Pacific Standard Time mean?
Pacific Standard Time means the time zone that encompasses the west coast of the United States, Baja California in Mexico, and formerly, British Columbia and Yukon in Canada from the first Sunday of November to the second Sunday of March; it is eight hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-8).
What part of speech is Pacific Standard Time?
Pacific Standard Time is a proper noun.

Words near Pacific Standard Time in the dictionary

  1. Pacific sardine
  2. Pacific sauries
  3. Pacific saury
  4. Pacific silver fir
  5. Pacific silver firs
  6. Pacific Standard Time
  7. Pacific tarpon
  8. Pacific tarpons
  9. Pacific Time
  10. Pacific Time Zone
  11. Pacific tree frog

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