单词 | local time |
释义 | > as lemmaslocal time local time n. (originally) time at a particular place reckoned from the instant of transit of the mean sun over the meridian at that place (which defines noon); (now more usually, and sometimes as a postmodifier) time as reckoned in the time zone containing the observer or the specified place; cf. time n. 35b. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] > systems of reckoning time of day time1646 apparent time1694 local timea1703 Greenwich Mean Time1782 sun time1837 GMT1840 railway time1847 railroad time1849 Greenwich time1861 Eastern time1878 Pacific time1880 Universal Time1882 Eastern Standard Time1883 Mountain time1883 British Standard Time1908 daylight saving1908 zone time1908 LMT1909 British Summer Time1916 summertime1916 U.T.1929 B.S.T.1930 EST1935 British Double Summer Time1941 war time1942 B.D.S.T.1943 ephemeris time1950 a1703 R. Hooke Lect. Navigation & Astron. in Posthumous Wks. (1705) 513 The different Local times being compar'd will give the different Longitude of those places in respect of one another. 1865 Catholic World Apr. 127/1 Railway time is gradually beating local time. 1935 World Almanac (ed. 50) 115/2 Mountain Standard Time is the local time of the 105th meridian. 1968 H. Franklin Crash i. 9 Our estimated time of arrival at Cairo is 17.45 local time, 15.45 G.M.T. 1998 J. Dougill Oxf. in Eng. Lit. 286 Five past nine equals nine o'clock local time, for Oxford lies five minutes behind Greenwich Mean Time. 2005 Flying July 111/1 I try to eat light so I can plan on eating dinner around five o'clock local time. < as lemmas |
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