standard time
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A 2025 Gallup poll found that the majority of Americans say they are ready to do away with the time shift, with 48% preferring standard time year round and 24% preferring daylight saving year round.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2026
Many see the beginning of standard time as a mild annoyance.
From Slate • Oct. 31, 2025
Most carbon removal credits have a standard time frame of 100 years, according to Erica Dorr, who leads the climate team at Riverse, a carbon crediting platform in France.
From Salon • Mar. 7, 2025
As a refresher: Each year in the United States, we spring forward an hour in March, and then go back to standard time in November.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2024
Both the roads and the public then conformed to the standard time of the zone in which they were.
From The United States Since the Civil War by Lingley, Charles Ramsdell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
