Central Standard Time

British  

noun

1. one of the standard times used in North America, based on the local time of the 90° meridian, six hours behind Greenwich Mean Time

2. one of the standard times used in Australia

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Example Sentences

President Kennedy was shot as he rode in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza at 12:30 Central Standard Time, which is six hours behind Greenwich Mean Time.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2017

Central Standard Time, CNN’s Dana Bash informed viewers that Mr. Carson “is going to go back to Florida to his home regardless of how he does tonight here in Iowa.”

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2015

Central Standard Time, television networks announced that Barack Obama had been elected the forty-fourth President of the United States.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2015

“We’d always say there were so many time zones — Eastern Standard Time, Central Standard Time — but the most important was GST: Guthridge Standard Time,” said Peterson, who became a college basketball coach.

From Washington Post • May 13, 2015

The time given is Eastern Standard Time at all points east of Toledo, and Central Standard Time, which is one hour slower, at Toledo and all points west.

From The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. by New York Central Railroad Company