Central Standard Time
Britishnoun
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one of the standard times used in North America, based on the local time of the 90° meridian, six hours behind Greenwich Mean Time
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one of the standard times used in Australia
Example Sentences
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President Kennedy was shot as he rode in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza at 12:30 Central Standard Time, which is six hours behind Greenwich Mean Time.
From BBC • Oct. 27, 2017
Central Standard Time, CNN’s Dana Bash informed viewers that Mr. Carson “is going to go back to Florida to his home regardless of how he does tonight here in Iowa.”
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2015
Central Standard Time, television networks announced that Barack Obama had been elected the forty-fourth President of the United States.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2015
The explanation was flimsy; if McIlory thought he was on the East Coast, wouldn’t he be early for his match at Medinah, which, thanks to its Illinois location, resides in Central Standard Time?
From Golf Digest • Oct. 16, 2013
The time given is Eastern Standard Time at all points east of Toledo, and Central Standard Time, which is one hour slower, at Toledo and all points west.
From The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. by New York Central Railroad Company
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