in reply to Changes in USA's Daylight Saving Time (DST)

To further my reputation for inserting tangential trivia instead of just answering a question, let me mention that it is Daylight Saving Time, not Savings. It's not a bank like "First Federal Savings and Loan."

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Re^2: Changes in USA's Daylight Savings Time (DST)
by jfroebe (Parson) on Aug 09, 2005 at 03:41 UTC

    Hi,

    Thanks :) I grew up knowing it with the extra s. You are correct and to our credit, many text books list it one way or the other. (in some cases, it will be listed with the extra s in one section and without in another.

    Thanks for letting us know the correct spelling. I definitely ++ your post :)

    Jason L. Froebe

    Team Sybase member

    No one has seen what you have seen, and until that happens, we're all going to think that you're nuts. - Jack O'Neil, Stargate SG-1

Re^2: Changes in USA's Daylight Savings Time (DST)
by Smylers (Pilgrim) on Aug 09, 2005 at 08:50 UTC
    To further my reputation for inserting tangential trivia instead of just answering a question, let me mention that it is Daylight Saving Time, not Savings.

    Well if you're going to be picky, surely a compound preposed adjective should have a hyphen in it:

    • "daylight-saving time" parses as "time with daylight saving", which is presumably what is intended.
    • "daylight saving time" parses as "saving time with daylight". I've no idea what "saving time" is (as a noun), but perhaps it's something to do with that bank you mentioned ...

    To put it in Perl terms: adjectives are right-associative.

    Smylers

      Or to be even more picky, the use of a hyphen is only appropriate when a non-adjective forms part of a compound adjective. The normal but less readable way of denoting two or more adjectives is to use a comma between adjectives. This example, using non-adjectives in the mix, shows where a hyphen is required, where a comma is required and where neither is required (where an adverb describes the adjective):

      Really picky, showing-the-commas, daylight-saving time.

      -S

      One world, one people

      To be absolutely picky: any proper noun is only properly spelled and pronounced when it is spelled and pronounced the way that the owner wants it spelled and pronounced. Thus, grammar has nothing to do with it.

      To put it in Perl terms: Global symbol "Daylight Savings Time" requires explicit package name. Execution aborted due to compilation errors.

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