Sentence examples for civil time from inspiring English sources
noun
Mean solar time reckoned from midnight by adding twelve hours.
"Leap seconds are needed to prevent civil time drifting away from Earth time.
There is little in the makeup of Vaz to suggest he will give Stephenson an easier or more civil time when he appears before him.
At 1am on 30 March, civil time in the UK will be fast-forwarded one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), heralding longer, lighter evenings and, hopefully, the tentative beginnings of summer.
Civil time was determined by the longitude of the site and is the conventional day starting at midnight.
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the basis for modern civil time.
After ancient times, equal-length civil hours eventually supplanted unequal, so civil time no longer varies by season.
It would consume civil service time.
Mr. Chadwick has set the Pennsylvania record for civil jail time served.
"It was the civil rights time here," her neighbor of 40 years, Sue Sellers, said.
Thus far, millions of hours of civil society time – and counting – has been invested in trying to shape these new goals.
This is unusually long for civil jail time and is an open-ended judgment rooted in a standoff over a bare-knuckle alimony fight.
