standard time
Noun
Meaning
the official time in a local region (adjusted for location around the Earth); established by law or custom
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A ship within the territorial waters of any nation would use that nation's standard time, but would revert to nautical standard time upon leaving its territorial waters.
But as legislatures across the country consider bills to end the clock shift, a big question looms ahead of this year's March 8 change: Which is better, summer hours or standard time?
By about 1900, almost all time on Earth was in the form of standard time zones, only some of which used an hourly offset from GMT.
Each railroad used its own standard time, usually based on the local time of its headquarters or most important terminus, and the railroad's train schedules were published using its own time.
For example: :The current Chinese standard time is +8 hours or :00 ( geng ) main In the Chinese calendar, the days begin at midnight and end at the next midnight, but people tend to regard the days as beginning at dawn.
DST apparently shifts an hour of sunlight to later in the day, and standard time claws that hour back.