Pacific Standard Time

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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).
Similar: Pacific Time Zone, Pacific Time, PST

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name time zone

Français	heure normale du Pacifique

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@misc{pacific_standard_time_2026,
  title = {Pacific Standard Time},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pacific%20standard%20time},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}