daylight-saving time
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- noun
- /ˈdeɪˌlaɪt ˈseɪvɪŋ taɪm/
- UK
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horario de verano
- Every year, I struggle with adjusting to daylight saving time when we spring forward.
- daylight-saving time twice a year
And then the best example is when the when the daylight saving time changes, particularly when we have to wake up one hour early.
- And then the best example is when the when the daylight saving time changes, particularly when we have to wake up one hour early.
Examples
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Now many people—sleep-deprived students in particular—would probably argue that daylight saving time is awesome, especially in the fall, because setting your clock back means that you get an extra hour of sleep.
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I'm sorry to say, daylight saving time is more than a hundred years old and shows no signs of dying out.
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And then the best example is when the when the daylight saving time changes, particularly when we have to wake up one hour early.
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So, so, so to me, the whole concept of daylight saving time was backwards.
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The only thing daylight saving time is actually saving is happiness.
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Daylight saving time has blown any kid-free time I might have had before bed totally out of the water.
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Some countries have daylight saving time; if your server is configured to that country's particular timezone, your server automatically changes time zone upon entering and leaving daylight saving time.
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And while daylight saving time may be an outdated concept, a holdover from an era when people rode horses, wrote with feathers, and made calls with the telegram instead of their iPhones, it's still an internationally implemented concept.
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The change to daylight saving time occurs in spring, giving us longer evenings.
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During daylight saving time, many people enjoy more sunlight after work.
Synonyms
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Setting clocks forward one hour during some months to have more daylight in the evening
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People set clocks one hour ahead in spring to make evenings lighter
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To move clocks forward by one hour in the warmer months to make evenings lighter
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
daylight-saving + time
The compound is transparently built from 'daylight' + 'saving' + 'time' so a learner who knows those words can infer it refers to a time system intended to 'save' or preserve daylight (i.e., adjust clocks to shift daylight into the evening). This general idea is cross-linguistically accessible and follows straightforward compositional logic, so the overall meaning is immediately understandable even if precise technical details (exact hour change) are not known.
Etymology
The phrase daylight-saving time comes from the simple idea of saving daylight: people move clocks forward one hour in summer so more light stays in the evening. That's why it means 'setting clocks one hour ahead' to have 'longer evenings' during the summer.