local time

English

Noun

local time (countable and uncountable, plural local times)

1. The official time in a particular region or time zone.

   The race starts at 15.00 local time on Saturday.

   • 2025 November 12, Vitali Vitaliev, “Time travelling”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 68:

     Had I travelled the same route by train (the Trans-Siberian Express, say), it would have taken me a week to get there - enough time to notice that the clocks at all the stations along the way (as well as at all other stations in the totalitarian USSR) stubbornly stuck to Moscow Time. […] That bizarre arrangement, convenient for the compilers of train timetables but highly confusing for everyone else, was in force until the early 2000s, when railway stations across Russia finally adopted local times, like everywhere else in the world.

2. (broadcasting) Synonym of station time.

Hypernyms

• time

Hyponyms

• local mean sidereal time
• local sidereal time
• local solar time

Translations

official time in a particular region or time zone

Chinese: Mandarin: 當地時間 / 当地时间 (zh) (dāngdì shíjiān), 本地時間 / 本地时间 (zh) (běndì shíjiān) Finnish: paikallinen aika, paikallisaika (fi) Galician: hora local f German: Ortszeit (de) f Hungarian: helyi idő (hu) Russian: ме́стное вре́мя n (méstnoje vrémja) Spanish: hora local f Swedish: lokaltid c

Anagrams

• collimate