How to Use local time in a Sentence

local time

noun
  • The event was scheduled for noon local time.
    Angele Latham, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This is due to the arrival time being shown in local time.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Each day at midnight local time, there is a new puzzle to solve.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The game resets with a new song at midnight local time.
    Kris Holt, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Oh, and much of this is playing out in the wee hours of the morning local time.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The public on-sale for these shows is Friday at noon local time.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The alert is in place until noon on Wednesday local time.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
  • All six finals will take place on March 31 (local time).
    Will Jeanes, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Kick-off 6pm local time No worries on the pitch as this game is covered.
    Aaron Mentkowski, New York Times, 15 June 2026
  • Iris Stalzer was found stabbed in her home shortly after noon local time.
    Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The best time for viewing the Leonids shower starts at around midnight local time.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The local time of the sender and recipient are not revealed in the data.
    David Yanofsky, Quartz, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The incident occurred around noon local time.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Seavey, meanwhile, was out on the trail and, moose or no, led the race as of Thursday morning local time.
    Victor Mather, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Leavitt said that the first round of talks will take place on Saturday morning local time.
    Riane Lumer, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Most ballots are cast through the mail, and in-person voting ends at noon local time on Sunday.
    ABC News, 14 June 2026
  • The talks are set to begin on Saturday morning local time.
    Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The route will only be open for 48 hours starting at noon local time on Wednesday.
    Solcyré Burga, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
  • For prime viewing, head outside between midnight local time and the early hours of the morning.
    Denise Chow, NBC news, 13 Dec. 2025
  • By Thursday morning local time, the fire was yet to be put out and rescues continued.
    Chan Ho-Him and Ken Moritsugu The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Here's the full schedule (events are listed in local time in Italy, which is six hours ahead of Eastern time).
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The bars were closed and the local time was 2am, so Matt Van Dis watched from his living room with friends.
    Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • The quake had about a 30-mile depth and occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning local time.
    Abel Alvarado, CNN, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Under the peace agreement, Hamas must release all the hostages by noon, local time on Monday.
    Nbc News, NBC news, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Authorities did not clarify if that was local time.
    Sean Holstege, AZCentral.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Airlines list all flight departure and arrival times in the local time of the respective airports.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Water was flowing over the top of the Wahiawa dam on Thursday morning local time.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The climb was meant to happen Saturday morning local time, but was rescheduled due to poor weather.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Borella was pronounced dead in Venice, Italy at around 7 pm local time on Thursday.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 23 Aug. 2025
  • This graphic compares air traffic from a week ago to traffic on Saturday evening, local time.
    Lou Robinson, CNN Money, 28 Feb. 2026

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