STANDARD TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does standard time mean? 

• STANDARD TIME (noun)
  The noun STANDARD 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: STANDARD TIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STANDARD 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 ("standard 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 "standard 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 

A seasonal time adjustment in which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time.

(Daylight-Savings Time, NCI Thesaurus)