Daylight-savings Definition

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The practice in some places of adjusting clocks forward in the Spring and back in the Fall, usually by one hour, so that the adjustment causes the time to coincide with the greatest period of illumination by the sun over the course of the day.
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  • As an added bonus, the Emerson CKS1862 will also automatically adjust its time for daylight savings time twice a year.

  • When I arrived I discovered that the practical test was already one hour in progress and learned that it was an hour later due to daylight savings.

  • Also, Arizona does not practice daylight savings time, so the state is always on Mountain Standard Time.

  • The batteries need to be changed every six months; experts recommend changing the batteries in autumn during daylight savings time.

  • The week ends with the change to Daylight Savings Time, where everyone loses one hour of sleep.

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