# As long as we're at it, why not make daylight savings...

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 3, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-long-as-were-at-it-why-not-make-daylight-savings/211170 "2003-11-03T16:22:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-long-as-were-at-it-why-not-make-daylight-savings/211170/21 "2003-11-05T03:02:46Z")

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> \*Originally posted by r\_k \*  
> \*\*For gawd’s sake, it’s Daylight **Saving** Time, so called because it is implemented to save daylight.
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> Savings are what you keep in that old Camp Coffee tin.
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> Say after me: Daylight Saving Time. Daylight Saving Time.
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> Sorry to be picky, but this one always gets my goat. \*\*

If you took the time to read the above cited thread on this topic, you would have seen that someone else has already raised this point, and, that it has been debunked.

Hate to break this to you, but, people have been saying ‘saving **s** ’ so often, that I’ve got a usage cite and three dictionaries that says the ‘s’ is OK. Besides, _daylight savings_ edged out _daylight saving_ in a Google fight.

[The Columbia Guide to Standard American English](http://www.bartleby.com/68/81/5281.html)

[Infoplease dictionary](http://www.infoplease.com/ipd/A0399665.html)

[Dictionary.com](http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=daylight%20saving)

[The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.](http://www.bartleby.com/61/65/D0046500.html)

Peace.

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