local time

Questions about local time

What does local time mean?

local time means "the official time in a local region (adjusted for location around the Earth); established by law or custom".

What is another word for local time?

Close synonyms include civil time, standard time. 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 local time a common word?

local 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.