Antonyms for daylight savingday·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

How to use daylight saving in a sentence?

1. Natalie Dautovich:

   With Daylight Saving Time, we experience a desynchronization with the daylight cycle, the clock time, and our sleep-wake rhythm.

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. 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.

4. 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.

5. Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005:

   The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

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