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Pacific Standard Time

British  

noun

  1.  PST.  one of the standard times used in North America, based on the local time of the 120° meridian, eight hours behind Greenwich Mean Time

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Pacific Standard Time from Starbase, the company’s Brownsville, Texas-area facility next to the Gulf of Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 19, 2024

It appeared that there was a chance for Senate Bill 5795 to make Pacific Standard Time permanent in Washington.

From Seattle Times Mar. 7, 2024

So, Washington state lawmakers took a different approach to ditch the switch this year with a bill to make Pacific Standard Time permanent in Washington, like in Hawaii and Arizona.

From Seattle Times Mar. 7, 2024

Second is museum participation in the Getty Foundation’s next Pacific Standard Time extravaganza, with more than 45 citywide exhibitions, launching next September.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 18, 2023

At 8:04 Pacific Standard Time on this morning, the first pictures of a new world, called Europa after an old one, were received on Earth.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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