Central Standard Time
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈsɛntrəl ˈstændərd taɪm/
- US
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Hora Central
- The meeting is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. Central Standard Time to accommodate participants across the Midwest.
- 1:00 Central Standard Time
- PM Central Standard Time
- P.M. Central Standard Time
Examples
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From Dallas, Texas, the flash apparently official, President Kennedy died at 1:00 PM Central Standard Time, 2 o'clock Eastern Standard Time, some 38 minutes ago.
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Central Standard Time, 2 o'clock Eastern Standard Time, some 38 minutes ago.
Fiction book (1991) -
These are all in Central Standard Time.
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From Dallas, Texas, the flash, apparently official, President Kennedy died at 1:00 p.m., Central Standard Time.
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And though my father always refused to change his watch whenever he had to leave the Central Standard Time zone, even he had to submit to this fundamental principle.
Fiction book (1999) -
I pre-ordered my iPhone 5 last night at about 2:00 AM Central Standard Time, right when the pre-orders opened.
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Below are the winners. If one of these is you, contact me no later than Thursday, May 26th at midnight Central Standard Time, or I'll have to redraw.
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At 7:48 this morning, Central Standard Time, a bomb exploded on a commuter train outside of Chicago, killing everyone on board.
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At around 4:30 a.m. Central Standard Time... our satellites detected a storm approaching the Ares 3 mission site on Mars.
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Last night, at approximately 10/9 Central Standard Time on the AMC network, an episode of the highly acclaimed series Breaking Bad went to air, and early reports say that it was one of the season's weakest, crippled by contrivances and forced, flawed logic.
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Synonyms
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3.2
Time used in the central United States and some parts of Canada and Mexico, one hour behind Eastern Time
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3.9
The standard time used in the central United States, six hours behind UTC
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the standard time of the central region' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'central' (middle/central region) + 'standard' (official/accepted) + 'time' (clock time). This region+standard+time label is a common, cross-linguistic way to name time zones, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will grasp the basic meaning (even if they might not know the exact GMT offset).
Etymology
Central Standard Time may come from the days when railroads needed one standard clock for each part of the country. Railroads set the same time for the central or middle region so trains and people used the same schedule, and that's why the phrase means the official time used in the central region today.