daylight-saving time

Or day·light-sav·ings time

[dey-lahyt-sey-ving]

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noun

the civil time observed when daylight saving is adopted in a country or community.

daylight-saving time

noun

Also called (in the US): daylight time.��time set usually one hour ahead of the local standard time, widely adopted in the summer to provide extra daylight in the evening See also British Summer Time

daylight-saving time

Time during which clocks are set one hour or more ahead of standard time to provide more daylight at the end of the working day during late spring, summer, and early fall. First proposed by Benjamin Franklin, daylight saving time was instituted in various countries during both world wars in the 20th century and was made permanent in most of the United States beginning in 1973. Arizona, Hawaii, most of eastern Indiana, and certain US territories and possessions do not observe daylight saving time.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of daylight-saving time¹

First recorded in 1905–10

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And both of California’s U.S. senators are cosponsors of the federal Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight-saving time permanent across the country.

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The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill that would keep the state on daylight-saving time all year - no falling back an hour in the fall and springing forward an hour in the spring.

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It is the latest step in the EU’s harmonisation of daylight-saving time first launched in the 1980s in an attempt to prevent divergent approaches from undermining the European single market.

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It has also been unable to deal with the small issues—in a recent attempt to mollify the roughly eighty per cent of Europeans who dislike daylight-saving time, the E.U.

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Last fall, the night before daylight-saving time ended, an all-user e-mail alert went out.

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