"daylight saving time" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-uk-daylight-saving-time.ogg [UK] Forms: daylight saving times [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} daylight saving time (countable and uncountable, plural daylight saving times)
  1. The practice in some places of adjusting clocks forward in the spring and back in the fall, usually by one hour, so that the adjustment causes the time to coincide with the greatest period of illumination by the sun over the course of the day. Wikipedia link: daylight saving time Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Time Synonyms: summer time [UK], daylight-saving time, daylight savings time, daylight saving, daylight savings, daylight time Hyponyms: War Time [US, historical] Related terms: split-time Coordinate_terms: time zone, put the clock back, put the clock forward Translations (an adjustment of the official time during summer): ля́тно вре́ме (ljátno vréme) [neuter] (Bulgarian), horari d'estiu [masculine] (Catalan), 夏時制 (Chinese Mandarin), 夏时制 (xiàshízhì) (Chinese Mandarin), 夏令時 (Chinese Mandarin), 夏令时 (xiàlìngshí) (Chinese Mandarin), letní čas [masculine] (Czech), sommertid [common-gender] (Danish), zomertijd [masculine] (Dutch), kesäaika (Finnish), heure d’été [feminine] (French), horario de verán [masculine] (Galician), Sommerzeit [feminine] (German), θερινή ώρα (theriní óra) [feminine] (Greek), שְׁעוֹן קַיִץ (sh'on qáyitz) [masculine] (Hebrew), nyári időszámítás (Hungarian), waktu musim panas (Indonesian), am sanhraidh [masculine] (Irish), ora legale [feminine] (Italian), 夏時間 (natsujikan) (alt: なつじかん) (Japanese), サマータイム (samātaimu) (Japanese), 일광 절약 시간 (ilgwang jeoryak sigan) (alt: 日光節約時間制) (Korean), hora aestiva (Latin), náʼoolkiłí tʼááłáʼí ahééʼílkid bee náás ninádajiiłkeed (Navajo), náás náádaʼdeeskidgo (Navajo), sommertid [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), czas letni [masculine] (Polish), horário de verão [masculine] (Portuguese), ora de vară (Romanian), ле́тнее вре́мя (létneje vrémja) [neuter] (Russian), horario de verano [masculine] (Spanish), sommartid [common-gender] (Swedish), เวลาออมแสง (Thai), amser haf [masculine] (Welsh)

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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "an adjustment of the official time during summer",
      "word": "hora aestiva"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "an adjustment of the official time during summer",
      "word": "náʼoolkiłí tʼááłáʼí ahééʼílkid bee náás ninádajiiłkeed"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "an adjustment of the official time during summer",
      "word": "náás náádaʼdeeskidgo"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "an adjustment of the official time during summer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sommertid"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "an adjustment of the official time during summer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "czas letni"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "an adjustment of the official time during summer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "horário de verão"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "an adjustment of the official time during summer",
      "word": "ora de vară"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "létneje vrémja",
      "sense": "an adjustment of the official time during summer",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ле́тнее вре́мя"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an adjustment of the official time during summer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "horario de verano"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "an adjustment of the official time during summer",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "sommartid"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "an adjustment of the official time during summer",
      "word": "เวลาออมแสง"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "an adjustment of the official time during summer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "amser haf"
    }
  ],
  "word": "daylight saving time"
}

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