standard time
noun
: the time of a region or country that is established by law or general usage as civil time (see civil sense 5)
… the advent of the railway system and its demand for accurate timetables created the need for standard time and GMT became the legal standard time of Britain in 1880.—
John Sallnow
John Sallnow
specifically
: the mean time of a meridian that is a multiple of 15 arbitrarily applied to a local area or to one of the 24 time zones and designated as a number of hours earlier or later than Greenwich Mean Time
At a little after nine Central Standard Time on the night of Monday, April 13, 1970 there was, high in the western sky, a tiny flare of light that in some respects resembled a star exploding far away in our galaxy. —Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr.
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All first-class mail will continue to be delivered within the standard time frame of one to five days.
—Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
This contradicts standard advice, but these aren’t standard times: Focus on saving only one month of expenses, then pour all other resources into the debt.
—Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2025
There was a brief reprieve from the chaos when Congress passed the Uniform Time Act in 1966, formalizing when the country (minus Hawaii and most of Arizona) was on daylight saving time and standard time.
—Addy Bink, The Hill, 9 Mar. 2025
The experts spoke universally against daylight saving time, and their personal opinions line up with recommendations of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the National Sleep Foundation as well as multiple European medical boards that argue to abolish the time change and stick to standard time.
—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2025
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Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
This contradicts standard advice, but these aren’t standard times: Focus on saving only one month of expenses, then pour all other resources into the debt.
—Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2025
There was a brief reprieve from the chaos when Congress passed the Uniform Time Act in 1966, formalizing when the country (minus Hawaii and most of Arizona) was on daylight saving time and standard time.
—Addy Bink, The Hill, 9 Mar. 2025
The experts spoke universally against daylight saving time, and their personal opinions line up with recommendations of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the National Sleep Foundation as well as multiple European medical boards that argue to abolish the time change and stick to standard time.
—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2025
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“Standard time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/standard%20time. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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