Synonyms for daylight saving
day·light sav·ing

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1. daylight-saving time, daylight-savings time, daylight saving, daylight savingsnoun

   time during which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time; widely adopted during summer to provide extra daylight in the evenings

   Synonyms:
   daylight-saving time, daylight-savings time, daylight savings

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1. daylight saving

   Read the full text of the Daylight Saving poem by Dorothy Parker on the Poetry.com website.

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1. Scott Yates:

   A lot of people prefer daylight saving time at the eastern end of time zones, mostly because it gets dark so early in the winter.

2. Christopher Barnes:

   There are 70 countries that practice daylight saving time, so you have millions of people suffering from sleep deprivation, we work and live in a culture that tries to cram in so much activity. Because of this, everything else suffers. I always tell my students that sleep makes everything better : your work, your life, your health and your relationships.

3. William Anthony.Naps:

   We figured this would be a good day to celebrate the importance of napping because everyone is one hour more sleep-deprived than usual, the fact is that the majority of Americans are sleep-deprived even without Daylight Saving Time.

4. Marco Rubio:

   The call to end the antiquated practice of clock changing is gaining momentum throughout the nation, studies have shown many benefits of a year-round Daylight Saving Time, which is why the Florida legislature voted to make it permanent in 2018. I'm proud to reintroduce this bipartisan bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, and give our nation's families more stability throughout the year.

5. Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947:

   I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.