Pacific Standard Time

Pacific Standard Time
n.
a standard time used in the zone which includes the W states of the continental U.S., corresponding to the mean solar time of the 120th meridian west of Greenwich, England: it is eight hours behind Greenwich time: see TIME ZONE

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(abbr PST) (also Pacific Time)
(in the US) the time used between late October and early April in the far western states, but not Alaska or Hawaii. It is eight hours earlier than Greenwich Mean Time.

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