daylight saving

or daylight savings

noun

the practice of advancing standard time by one hour in the spring of each year and of setting it back by one hour in the fall in order to gain an extra period of daylight during the early evening.

Origin of daylight saving

First recorded in 1905–10

Words nearby daylight saving

dayglow, dayhop, daylight, daylight lamp, daylight robbery, daylight saving, daylight-saving time, daylights, daylily, daylong, daymare

Example sentences from the Web for daylight saving

A hyphen is part of the common spelling: daylight-saving time.

Is it Daylight Saving or Daylight Savings? |Dictionary.com |November 8, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
They have the real idea of daylight-saving, and do not let any of it escape them.

Three Times and Out |Nellie L. McClung
"I'm wondering about this daylight-saving business," she said.

Mince PieAuthor: Christopher Darlington MorleyRelease Date: October 10, 2004 [eBook #13694] |Christopher Darlington Morley
We initiated a daylight-saving system on this day by putting forward the clock one hour.

South! |Sir Ernest Shackleton

There is daylight-saving in Germany, which made the rising one hour earlier, and the other end of the day was always the "dark."

Three Times and Out |Nellie L. McClung
By nine, the last remnant of the long twilight, a collaboration of midsummer with daylight-saving, had disappeared.

Out of the Air |Inez Haynes Irwin

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daylight saving

or daylight savings

noun

Origin of daylight saving

Words nearby daylight saving

Example sentences from the Web for daylight saving

BROWSE DICTIONARY

Learning

daylight saving

or daylight savings

noun

Origin of daylight saving

Words nearby daylight saving

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Example sentences from the Web for daylight saving