Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of daylight saving time.
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The town of Tweed Heads in the north of New South Wales merges seamlessly into Coolangatta on Queensland's Gold Coast. The two states are ostensibly in the same time zone, but New South Wales observes daylight saving, and Queensland doesn't. That means the twin towns have managed to carve out a peculiar niche as somewhere you can celebrate New Year's Eve twice. Start in Tweed Heads, then stroll over into Coolangatta, and the party starts again an hour later.
2025 November 12, Vitali Vitaliev, “Time travelling”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 68
Synonyms & antonyms
nountime during which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time; widely adopted during summer to provide extra daylight in the evenings
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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daylight saving. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daylight%20saving
“daylight saving.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daylight%20saving. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “daylight saving,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daylight%20saving.
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