daylight saving

or daylight savings


noun
  1. the practice of advancing standard time by one hour in the spring of each year and of setting it back by one hour in the fall in order to gain an extra period of daylight during the early evening.

Origin of daylight saving

1
First recorded in 1905–10

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How to use daylight saving in a sentence

  • There is daylight-saving in Germany, which made the rising one hour earlier, and the other end of the day was always the "dark."

    Three Times and Out | Nellie L. McClung