Usage and spelling have regional variants, and Cory is (like myself) Canadian. We Canadians of a certain vintage (those educated before American spellings were

Usage and spelling have regional variants, and Cory is (like myself) Canadian. We Canadians of a certain vintage (those educated before American spellings were given the nod in the Canadian Press Manual of Style) have tended to retain older spellings. "Pass-time" is among them, and it appears in Canadian writing (with or without the hyphen) far more often than the single-ess version.