- daylight saving
- noun see daylight saving time
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
daylight saving
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daylight saving — noun time during which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time; widely adopted during summer to provide extra daylight in the evenings • Syn: ↑daylight saving time, ↑daylight savings time, ↑daylight savings • Hypernyms: ↑time * * *… … Useful english dictionary
Daylight\ Saving — • Ddaylight Saving Time • Daylight Saving • Daylight Time • Fast Time • DST noun A way of keeping time in summer that is one or two hours ahead of standard time. Many places in the United States keep their clocks on daylight saving time in the… … Словарь американских идиом
daylight saving — /ˌdeɪlaɪt ˈseɪvɪŋ / (say .dayluyt sayving) noun 1. a system of reckoning time one or more hours later than the standard time for a country or community, usually used during summer months to give more hours of daylight to the working day.… …
daylight saving — noun Daylight saving is used before these nouns: ↑time … Collocations dictionary
Daylight Saving for South East Queensland — (DS4SEQ) Founded 2008 Headquarters South East Queensland Ideology Daylight Saving in South East Queensland … Wikipedia
Daylight saving time in Chile — is used in Chile. Several exceptions have been decreed to the current rule that began in 1970. In 1987 the daylight saving time change was delayed until Saturday 11 April to accommodate a visit by Pope John Paul II[1] In 1988 the daylight saving… … Wikipedia
daylight saving time — n. [often D S T ] standard time that is one hour later than the standard time for a given zone based on mean solar time: it is used to give an hour more of daylight at the end of the usual working day: also daylight savings time * * * System for… … Universalium
Daylight saving time in Canada — Daylight saving time (DST) is now observed in all Canadian provinces, except Saskatchewan. Under the Canadian Constitution, laws related to timekeeping are a purely provincial matter. Contents 1 History 2 By province or territory 2.1 British… … Wikipedia
Daylight saving time in Germany — Daylight saving time was first introduced during World War I by the German Empire in the years 1916 to 1918. After the end of the war and the proclamation of the Weimar Republic in November 1918, daylight saving time ceased to be observed in… … Wikipedia
Daylight saving time in Brazil — (called horário de verão summer time in Portuguese) was first adopted in 1931.[1] Initially, it applied to the whole country (with an exception in part of 1963); since 1988, it started being used only in part of the country.[2] The duration and… … Wikipedia
