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English: Daylight Savings

German translation: Sommerzeit







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English term or phrase:Daylight Savings
German translation:Sommerzeit
Entered by:Brandis
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English to German translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Computers: Hardware / Internet time zones, Light savings
English term or phrase: Daylight Savings
Daylight savings - time zones - I have no further context here.
Brandis
Germany
Clarification request(s) and response
Brandis (asker): 8:09pm Nov 4, 2004: The sentence goes actually like this - if your area uses Summer or daylight saving time.

Sommerzeit
Explanation:
In diesem Fall "Sommerzeit".
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AndreaHM
United States
Note from asker to answerer
Thank you , surprisingly there was no entry at all in Kudoz open glossaries.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +8Sommerzeit oder WinterzeitAndreaHM
5 +1SommerzeitAndreaHM
2 +2MESZ
Jonathan MacKerron
4 -6Tageslicht-Sparungen
Serkan Doğan


  


Answers

2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -6
daylight savings Tageslicht-Sparungen

Explanation:
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Serkan Doğan
Turkey
Native speaker of: Native in TurkishTurkish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree Ulrike Lieder: Sorry, das liegt aber nun wirklich absolut und vollkommen daneben.
6 mins

disagree Peter Gennet: Ich bezweifle, dass es das gibt.
7 mins

disagree G�nter Simon: Den Begriff Tageslicht-Sparungen gibt es nicht und wird es zu meinen Lebzeiten mit Sicherheit nicht geben. Serkan, Serkan ...
27 mins

disagree Nesrin: Clearly Babelfish translation
58 mins

disagree Petra51: kein deutsches Wort
1 hr

disagree MajaM: woertllich uebersetzt
2 hrs

neutral Noe Tessmann: na ja einen Versuch war es ja wert
2 hrs
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +8
daylight savings Sommerzeit oder Winterzeit

Explanation:
Zeitumstellung


    Reference: http://www.zeitumstellung.de
AndreaHM
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Herbert2
2 mins

agree Eva-Maria Ortinau
4 mins

agree Ulrike Lieder: Wobei daylight saving(s) time = Sommerzeit. Winterzeit = standard time. Soweit ich weiß, ist der "richtige" Begriff daylight saving time, aber daylight savings (mit s) hat sich im umgangssprachlichen Gebrauch eingebürgert.
4 mins

agree G�nter Simon: stimme mit Ulrike überein.
25 mins

agree msherms
25 mins

agree Katrin Lueke
58 mins

agree Petra51: ich stimme zu, insbesondere auch Ulrikes Eintrag
1 hr

agree MajaM
2 hrs
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38 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
daylight savings Sommerzeit

Explanation:
In diesem Fall "Sommerzeit".

AndreaHM
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4
Note from asker to answerer
Thank you , surprisingly there was no entry at all in Kudoz open glossaries.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree ntext
33 mins
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +2
daylight savings MESZ

Explanation:
mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit = (MESZ) Central European Summer Time

is I believe the official term

Jonathan MacKerron
Germany
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree andrewd
28 mins

agree Nesrin
12 hrs
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