LOCAL TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does local time mean? 

• LOCAL TIME (noun)
  The noun LOCAL TIME has 1 sense:

1. the official time in a local region (adjusted for location around the Earth); established by law or custom

  Familiarity information: LOCAL TIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOCAL TIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The official time in a local region (adjusted for location around the Earth); established by law or custom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

civil time; local time; standard time

Hypernyms ("local time" is a kind of...):

time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "local time"):

Atlantic Standard Time; Atlantic Time (standard time in the 4th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 60th meridian; used in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and Bermuda and the Canadian Maritime Provinces)

Eastern Standard Time; Eastern Time; EST (standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States)

Central Standard Time; Central Time; CST (standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian; used in the central United States)

Mountain Standard Time; Mountain Time; MST (standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west; used in the mountain states of the United States)

Pacific Standard Time; Pacific Time; PST (standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west; used in far western states of the United States)

Alaska Standard Time; Yukon Time (standard time in the 9th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 135th meridian west; used in Hawaii and most of Alaska)

Hawaii Standard Time; Hawaii Time (standard time in the 10th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 150th meridian west; used in Hawaii and the western Aleutian Islands)

Bering Standard Time; Bering Time (standard time in the 11th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 165th meridian west; used in the Midway Islands)

 Context examples 

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported the first quake occurred at 7:37 p.m. local time (1137 UTC) on Wednesday.

(Aftershocks increase death toll of magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Philippines, Wikinews)

A string unique to a time duration of 24 hours between 2 successive midnights defined by the local time zone.

(Date Data Type, NCI Thesaurus)

A second attack started at mid-day, and a third attack started at about 4pm local time.

(Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down websites in US, Wikinews)

The flight started at 8:17 a.m. local time (0617 UTC) in Sangatte and finished in St Margaret's at Cliffe near Dover.

(French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crosses English Channel on jet-powered hoverboard, Wikinews)

On Thursday local time, the government of Samoa began a planned two-day shutdown to make way for a nationwide vaccination campaign to combat the measles outbreak that had, by reports, infected over 4,200 of the island nation's roughly 200,0000 residents since October and killed at least 62, including 54 small children.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)

The first attack started at about 7am local time (UTC-4) and was resolved in two hours.

(Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down websites in US, Wikinews)