summer time en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(UK, uncountable) Daylight 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:
Deriveds
Western European Summer Time · Irish Summer Time · British Summer Time · Moscow Summer Time · Middle European Summer Time · European Summer Time · Eastern European Summer Time · West Africa Summer Time · Double Summer Time · British Double Summer Time · Central European Summer Time