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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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The fireside chat was scheduled for Wednesday evening in Davos, which is nine hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time, with media outlet Fortune.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

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

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

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

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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