Where does “太平洋標準時” come from?

太平洋標準時 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 標準時, from Japanese 時, from Old Japanese 時, from Old Japanese しだ — a time, circumstance, occasion.

太平洋標準時 (Japanese): Pacific Standard Time

Definitions

  1. Pacific Standard Time

Ancestry of “太平洋標準時”, step by step

太平洋標準時 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 標準時

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese標準時standard time
2Japanese時time; an event, case, occasion, moment; a...
3Old Japanese時a time, moment (in time), occasion
4Old Japaneseしだa time, circumstance, occasion

via Japanese 太平洋

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese太平洋Pacific Ocean
Every word from Old Japanese しだ →Every word from Old Japanese 時 →Every word from Japanese 時 →