standard time
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Many see the beginning of standard time as a mild annoyance.
From Slate • Oct. 31, 2025
Most carbon removal credits have a standard time frame of 100 years, according to Erica Dorr, who leads the climate team at Riverse, a carbon crediting platform in France.
From Salon • Mar. 7, 2025
I had assumed that switching to year-round standard time also required action at the federal level.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2024
As a refresher: Each year in the United States, we spring forward an hour in March, and then go back to standard time in November.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2024
By 7 A. M., according to Eastern standard time, they were but fifty thousand miles from Jupiter's surface, the gigantic globe filling nearly one side of the sky.
From A journey in other worlds A romance of the future by Astor, John Jacob
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.