daylight saving
or daylight savings
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
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How to use daylight saving in a sentence
Vitamin D is in short supply and working from home means I’m inside most of the day, so the appeal of a therapy lamp has increased—especially after daylight savings.
The gifts Popular Science wants this holiday season | Mike Epstein and PopSci Staff | November 18, 2021 | Popular-ScienceOnly a narrow band of people are really that affected by daylight saving.
All the ways daylight saving time screws with you | Elana Spivack, Margo Milanowski, and Sara Chodosh | November 6, 2021 | Popular-ScienceHow to choose the right gutters for your structureCheck exterior handrails and stepsWith daylight saving time ending the first Sunday of November and the days growing shorter, people will be frequently coming and going from your house in the dark.
Here are 9 home maintenance tasks for your November to-do list | Jeanne Huber | October 29, 2021 | Washington PostIf you’re a bit confused about which states follow daylight saving time and which do not, I don’t blame you.
Daylight saving time begins Sunday: 8 things to know about “springing forward” | Brian Resnick | March 12, 2021 | VoxThe goal of these maps is to show how abolishing daylight saving time, extending it all year, or going with the status quo changes the number of days we have “reasonable” sunrise and sunset times.
Daylight saving time begins Sunday: 8 things to know about “springing forward” | Brian Resnick | March 12, 2021 | Vox
A hyphen is part of the common spelling: daylight-saving time.
"I'm wondering about this daylight-saving business," she said.
Mince PieAuthor: Christopher Darlington MorleyRelease Date: October 10, 2004 [eBook #13694] | Christopher Darlington MorleyBy nine, the last remnant of the long twilight, a collaboration of midsummer with daylight-saving, had disappeared.
Out of the Air | Inez Haynes IrwinWe initiated a daylight-saving system on this day by putting forward the clock one hour.
South! | Sir Ernest ShackletonOur unparliamentary correspondent states that the Daylight-Saving Scheme had a narrow escape.
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
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