daylight-savings time
Definitions of daylight-savings time
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time during which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time; widely adopted during summer to provide extra daylight in the eveningssynonyms: daylight saving, daylight savings, daylight-saving timetype of:timethe continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
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