daylight saving
or daylight savings
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
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How to use daylight saving in a sentence
A hyphen is part of the common spelling: daylight-saving time.
"I'm wondering about this daylight-saving business," she said.
Mince PieAuthor: Christopher Darlington MorleyRelease Date: October 10, 2004 [eBook #13694] | Christopher Darlington MorleyBy nine, the last remnant of the long twilight, a collaboration of midsummer with daylight-saving, had disappeared.
Out of the Air | Inez Haynes IrwinWe initiated a daylight-saving system on this day by putting forward the clock one hour.
South! | Sir Ernest ShackletonOur unparliamentary correspondent states that the Daylight-Saving Scheme had a narrow escape.
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
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