daylight saving time
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daylight saving time¹
noun daylight saving times · daylight-saving time · daylight savings time · daylight saving · daylight savings · daylight time
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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 Tim
Similar: summer time
Daylight Saving Time²
noun
- Alternative letter-case form of daylight saving time
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noun an adjustment of the official time during summer
| Español | horario de verano, horario veranero, horario veraniego, hora ahorrativa lumínica diurna, hora de ahorro de luz diurna |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 일광 절약 시간 ilgwang jeoryak sigan |
| 日本語 | 夏時間 natsujikan, サマータイム samātaimu |
| 中文 | 夏時制 /夏时制 xiàshízhì, 夏令時 /夏令时 xiàlìngshí |
| Português | horário de verão |
| Français | heure d’été, heure avancée |
| Deutsch | Sommerzeit |
| Italiano | ora legale |
| Ελληνικά | θερινή ώρα theriní óra |
| Română | ora de vară |
| Русский | ле́тнее вре́мя létneje vrémja |
| עברית | שְׁעוֹן קַיִץ sh'on qáyitz |
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