summer time

noun

Daylight Saving Time.

Meanings

nounsummer time (uncountable)
  1. UKuncountableDaylight Saving Time.

    When the clocks are put forward at the introduction of summer time, the long-distance night trains automatically become one hour late, and continue to run late for the remainder of their journeys. […] Similarly, when the clocks are put back in the autumn, the night trains become one hour early.

    1951 June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Railways and Summer Time”, in Railway Magazine, page 429

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