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daylight savings

n. 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.

WordNet
daylight savings

n. 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 saving]

Usage examples of "daylight savings".

Because of daylight savings time, it still wasn't dark enough to go home, so he wandered around the mall until the nine P.

Thanks to Daylight Savings Time, the sun was still shining at eight p.

It was nearly seven, and even though it was still daylight savings time, it would be dark soon.

With daylight savings time, it was still light, though the setting sun remained hidden by the overcast.

What in the name of Daylight Savings Time just happened out there?

The far-flung network of the Brass Pounders' Bunch would be firing up on 40 meters at 2200 hours Pacific Daylight Savings Time for their weekly high-speed code competition and rag chew.

Also, please be good guys and attack off hours (Mountain Daylight Savings Time, US) so he can use obscure.

Since it was daylight savings time I had at least ten plus hours to wait.

Manuel asked, thinking that we were talking about Daylight Savings Time.