CDT

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A form of Central Daylight Time — The time of day in the time zone that encompasses most of the Midwest and the southern part of the United States, and Manitoba, the western third of northern Ontario and the middle third of Nunavut in Canada from the second Sunday of March to the first Sunday of November, as well as the province of Saskatchewan in Canada and most states of Mexico year-round; it is five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-5), and one hour ahead of Central Standard Time.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Central Daylight Time.
  2. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of C/C++ Development Toolkit (a component of Eclipse)
nounCDT (countable and uncountable, plural CDTs)

plural CDTs

  1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of causal decision theory.
  2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of clock draw task.
  3. UKabbreviationcountablehistoricalinitialismuncountableeducationInitialism of craft, design, and technology.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
central daylight time
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