With the biannual ritual of manipulating our hours of daylight right around the corner, I feel compelled to chat about a pet peeve of mine -Daylight Saving Time.
That's right SAVING TIME ...not SAVINGS TIME. This is the official spelling for the time of year when we mess with our alarm clocks AND body clocks. Any decent weather girl will tell you it is always our job to remind viewers to do this task.
I'm hardly Gertrude Grammar... But while DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME tends to be more conversational, it's really grammatically incorrect.
SAVING is used as a verbal adjective (a participle). It modifies TIME and reveals more about its nature. It is characterized by the activity of SAVING DAYLIGHT. So save your "S"!
What really is baffling about this is that no daylight is actually saved. Our hours of daylight shift ,making the days seem longer as we spring forward one hour this weekend.
While this concept has actually been around since Ben Franklin's days...one would think we could come up with a more accurate description for our tampering with time and sunshine.
How about Daylight Manipulating Time? Or Manipulating Daylight Time? or Time to Manipulate Daylight?
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