civil time

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Noun

civil time - the official time in a local region (adjusted for location around the Earth); established by law or customlocal time, standard timetime - the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the pastAtlantic Standard Time, Atlantic Time - standard time in the 4th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 60th meridian; used in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and Bermuda and the Canadian Maritime ProvincesEastern Standard Time, Eastern Time, EST - standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United StatesCentral Standard Time, Central Time, CST - standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian; used in the central United StatesMountain Standard Time, Mountain Time, MST - standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west; used in the mountain states of the United StatesPacific Standard Time, Pacific Time, PST - standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west; used in far western states of the United StatesAlaska Standard Time, Yukon Time - standard time in the 9th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 135th meridian west; used in Hawaii and most of AlaskaHawaii Standard Time, Hawaii Time - standard time in the 10th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 150th meridian west; used in Hawaii and the western Aleutian IslandsBering Standard Time, Bering Time - standard time in the 11th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 165th meridian west; used in the Midway Islands

Translations

tempo civile

civil time

civil time,

local timetime,
sequential arrangement of all events, or the interval between two events in such a sequence. The concept of time may be discussed on several different levels: physical, psychological, philosophical and scientific, and biological.
..... Click the link for more information. based on universal timeuniversal time
(UT), the international time standard common to every place in the world, it nominally reflects the mean solar time along the earth's prime meridian (renumbered to equate to civil time).
..... Click the link for more information. . Civil time may be formally defined as mean solar timesolar time,
time defined by the position of the sun. The solar day is the time it takes for the sun to return to the same meridian in the sky. Local solar time is measured by a sundial.
..... Click the link for more information. plus 12 hr; the civil day begins at midnight, while the mean solar day begins at noon. Civil time is occasionally adjusted by one-second increments to ensure that the difference between a uniform timescale defined by atomic clocksatomic clock,
electric or electronic timekeeping device that is controlled by atomic or molecular oscillations. A timekeeping device must contain or be connected to some apparatus that oscillates at a uniform rate to control the rate of movement of its hands or the rate of
..... Click the link for more information. does not differ from the earth's rotational time by more than 0.9 seconds. Coordinated universal time (UTC), an atomic time, is the basis for civil time. Civil time is usually not used, since it depends on the observer's longitude; instead, standard timestandard time,
civil time used within a given time zone. The earth is divided into 24 time zones, each of which is about 15° of longitude wide and corresponds to one hour of time. Within a zone all civil clocks are set to the same local solar time.
..... Click the link for more information. , which is the same throughout a given time zone, is generally adopted.

civil time

[¦si·vəl ¦tīm] (astronomy) Solar time in a day (civil day) that begins at midnight; may be either apparent solar time or mean solar time.

civil time

Related to civil time: Zulu time, Local Civil Time

noun

Synonyms for civil time

noun the official time in a local region (adjusted for location around the Earth)

Synonyms

local time
standard time

Related Words

time
Atlantic Standard Time
Atlantic Time
Eastern Standard Time
Eastern Time
EST
Central Standard Time
Central Time
CST
Mountain Standard Time
Mountain Time
MST
Pacific Standard Time
Pacific Time
PST
Alaska Standard Time
Yukon Time
Hawaii Standard Time
Hawaii Time
Bering Standard Time
Bering Time