daylight saving

or daylight savings

noun

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of daylight saving¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

"I'm wondering about this daylight-saving business," she said.

From Project Gutenberg

By nine, the last remnant of the long twilight, a collaboration of midsummer with daylight-saving, had disappeared.

From Project Gutenberg

We initiated a daylight-saving system on this day by putting forward the clock one hour.

From Project Gutenberg

Our unparliamentary correspondent states that the Daylight-Saving Scheme had a narrow escape.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg