starting time

noun

noun

The moment in time at which something is scheduled or supposed to begin.

If you were not in your place in the carriage ten minutes before the starting time, or at the first ringing of the bell, you would be locked out.1842, William Howitt, The Rural and Domestic Life of Germany, page 443:
12:25 is the starting-time; and, hark! there is the bell—the whistle—the ‘go-ahead’.1850, Chapman and Hall (publisher), The Florist and Garden Miscellany - Volume 2, page 236:

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