Civil time Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the official time in a local region (adjusted for location around the Earth); established by law or custom
    standard time; local time.

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Definitions
  1. time as reckoned for the purposes of common life in distinct periods, as years, months, days, hours, etc., the latter, among most modern nations, being divided into two series of twelve each, and reckoned, the first series from midnight to noon, the second, from noon to midnight.

Webster 1913