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It's actually called "Daylight Saving Time", but it's a common mistake.
by Osiris 10y ago
It's actually called "Daylight Saving Time", but it's a common mistake.
- khedoros1 10y agoThere's a funny thing about "mistakes" in language. The more common they are, the less they're mistakes.
- allengeorge 10y agoIn which region is it common to call in Daylight Time? In New York I always hear it referred to as Daylight Savings Time.
- khedoros1 10y ago"Daylight Time"? Nowhere that I've been. Mackal said that Arizona doesn't observe "daylight savings", and Osiris corrected them with "Daylight Saving Time". That's the difference that I was referring to. I hear "daylight savings" quite often.
- _nalply 10y agoI copied what the article said – when in Rome do as Romans do.
- ScottBurson 10y agoActually, the correct way to write it is "Daylight-Saving Time" [0]. I strongly suspect that had it been commonly written this way from the beginning, people would have understood how the phrase is constructed -- it means, the time that saves daylight -- and the whole "daylight savings" thing would never have gotten started. Consider that the hyphenated form also suggests a different pronunciation, with the primary stress on "day" and secondary stress on "sav", rather than the other way around which is how most people pronounce it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen#Compound_modifiers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen#Compound_modifiers
- Osiris 10y agoYou should correct the Wikipedia article[0]. The title and references within the article don't use the hyphenated version. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
- ScottBurson 10y agoFunny you should mention! I tried [0]. (That's an old revision of the Talk page; the discussion has been removed.) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Daylight_saving_time&oldid=672096761#Orthography:_why_it_should_be_.22daylight-saving_time.22 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Daylight_sav...