in reply to Re: Changes in USA's Daylight Savings Time (DST)
in thread 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.

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

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

Smylers

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Re^3: Changes in USA's Daylight Savings Time (DST)
by anonymized user 468275 (Curate) on Aug 09, 2005 at 10:52 UTC
    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

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Re^3: Changes in USA's Daylight Savings Time (DST)
by halley (Prior) on Aug 09, 2005 at 12:42 UTC
    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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