daylight-saving time

1. 1.

   time during which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time; widely adopted during summer to provide extra daylight in the evenings

   Synonymsdaylight-savings timedaylight savingdaylight savings

   Broadertime

Questions about daylight-saving time

What does daylight-saving time mean?

daylight-saving time means "time during which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time; widely adopted during summer to provide extra daylight in the evenings".

What is another word for daylight-saving time?

Close synonyms include daylight-savings time, daylight saving, daylight savings. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is daylight-saving time a common word?

daylight-saving time is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.