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F366930 02: Tourneau Time Machine employee Pellegrino John Bongiovi sets one of the 20,000 watches in the Manhattan watch store ahead an hour for the onset of Daylight Savings Time in New York City, N.Y., April 1,2000. The official changeover occurs at 2 a.m. Sunday. (Photo by Chris Hondros)
Many are wondering what time they’ll have to slug it out of bed this Sunday, and what in the world this thing called “Daylight Saving Time” is anyway. If you live in the United States or parts of Europe, you’ve had to adjust hours of your life for as long as you can remember, probably.
But why? What’s with this “saving” of daylight? The following five fast facts will tell you.
Here’s what you need to know:
First thing’s first. Please don’t say, “it’s daylight savings time,” because it is not “daylight savings time.” It is “daylight saving time.”
It is grammatically incorrect to “daylight savings time,” as USA Today will happily tell you. So, this weekend, as you’re losing the extra hour from your sleep, lose the extra “s” in daylight savings, and just call it daylight saving. It might sound weird if you’ve been saying “daylight savings time” for years, but hey–at least now you can be self-righteously and grammatically correct–and that’s a pretty big achievement in life.
“Because the point is the saving of daylight, it seems more correct for it to be daylight saving time, not daylight savings time,” explains the site, Grammar Errors .
The blog Grammar Cops took the correction a bit further, saying, “daylight saving time” might be altogether incorrect.
