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Oct 31 '09 by kevinwells

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is everybody looking forward to Daylight Saving Time?

yup, in just a mere two hours (for us east coast people), the glorious powers that be will grant us all an extra hour of sleep, drunken halloween debauchery, or, in my case, frustrated, demoralizing school work.

and also, yup, it's Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight Savings Time, like most people like to say.

quoth this delightful snippet on grammar:

Spelling and grammar

The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time.

Saving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle). It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of saving daylight. It is a saving daylight kind of time. Because of this, it would be more accurate to refer to DST as daylight-saving time. Similar examples would be a mind-expanding book or a man-eating tiger. Saving is used in the same way as saving a ball game, rather than as a savings account.

Nevertheless, many people feel the word savings (with an 's') flows more mellifluously off the tongue. Daylight Savings Time is also in common usage, and can be found in dictionaries.

Adding to the confusion is that the phrase Daylight Saving Time is inaccurate, since no daylight is actually saved. Daylight Shifting Time would be better, and Daylight Time Shifting more accurate, but neither is politically desirable.

*insert alarm clock clipart*

ginetteginette on Oct 31 '09 at 11:15pm

omg i almost forgot!!!

ginetteginette on Oct 31 '09 at 11:16pm

oh, my computer and my phone both automatically changed. sweet.

kevinwells on Oct 31 '09 at 11:20pm

wow, they changed already? they're ahead of the curve! i believe mine'll automatically switch over at 2am. it's really weird seeing a clock go "1:58.... 1:59.... 1:00". it's like deja vu all over again!

Malcolm Man on Oct 31 '09 at 11:20pm

I really enjoyed that grammar snippet. I've been saying it wrong for so long.

rossmat8 on Oct 31 '09 at 11:22pm

Have the world's longest 1 minute party from the first time 1:59 AM rolls around to the time the clock actually hits 2 AM. I suggest everyone should have one of these they're a great excuse to have an hour long party yet the clock only actually changes by 1 minute.

kevinwells on Oct 31 '09 at 11:23pm

i love accurate and mildly-snarky discussion of grammar.

the phrase "It is a saving daylight kind of time." just made me so happy. it sounds like the kind of thing you'd say with a lot of excitement and jubilation, like you're proud of the kind of time you're declaring. i imagine you'd look like this:

outline on Oct 31 '09 at 11:24pm

i donut get daylight saving time here :(

i donut understand daylight saving time :(

overall :(

jublin on Oct 31 '09 at 11:25pm

ah yes. Daylight Time Shifting.

PuppetMeat on Oct 31 '09 at 11:26pm

Why is it called daylight anything when the change actually happens during the night-time? So shouldn't it be Night-Saving time? Or my personal favorite, Timeapalooza?

kevinwells on Oct 31 '09 at 11:27pm

aw, it's okay, liz. it's only a completely arbitrary and only vaguely logically-motivated concept imposed by the government to favor businesses that benefit from having more daylight later in the day when patrons are off work and have time to spend their money anyway. you're not missing out on much.

Malcolm Man on Oct 31 '09 at 11:32pm

hahahaha. Have you ever listened to A Way With Words?

It is a pod cast that I enjoy much.

ginetteginette on Oct 31 '09 at 11:37pm

nevermind, it hasn't changed, i'm just confused :(

Malcolm Man on Oct 31 '09 at 11:45pm

for the record, I'm not a fan of DST. I really wish they'd just stop fucking with my clocks.

xiv on Oct 31 '09 at 11:45pm

I hate DST.

kevinwells on Oct 31 '09 at 11:45pm

i just googled it, malcolm, and the website header alone makes me want to listen to it:

look at that arm wrestling!

Malcolm Man on Oct 31 '09 at 11:49pm

hahahahahahaha. They're so entertaining. They have riddles and word puzzles along with the etymology of strange and esoteric sayings. I listen to them everyday.

SteveOramA on Nov 01 '09 at 12:03am

DST is crazy. we don't even need it anymore.
they don't "observe" it in hawaii at all.
this will be the first time in 7 years that it will happen to me.
i'm nervous...

kevinwells on Nov 01 '09 at 12:05am

i'm listening to an episode right now. they both have very lovely radio voices.

i just learned that horseradish is in fact not named after a horse penis, despite slightly resembling one

asdfghaya on Nov 01 '09 at 12:05am

yessssssssssss extra hours of sleeps.

Khol on Nov 01 '09 at 12:06am

We get to relive 1 am!

wombatcrusader on Nov 01 '09 at 12:09am

It's times like these that I bless farmers (Ben Franklin, too!)!

squatterjohn on Nov 01 '09 at 12:30am

We've had daylight savings for a month already.

brentendo on Nov 01 '09 at 12:33am

that bit of grammar info was awesome

Malcolm Man on Nov 01 '09 at 12:37am

hahahahahaha! Yes KEvin!!!!

kevinwells on Nov 01 '09 at 12:55am

wow, so because of that A Way With Words podcast i just listened to, i learned for the very first time in my life that some people consider w to be a vowel. i've never heard that before. i've heard the whole "a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y" thing, but never "and sometimes w". now that i read about it on wikipedia, there is a huge whole world of vowelness that i never knew existed before! vowels, semivowels, close vowels, approximants, etc

who knew!

also, it's only 6 minutes till my clock rolls over!

kevinwells on Nov 01 '09 at 1:03am

IT HAPPENED!

Khol on Nov 01 '09 at 1:05am

TIME WARP!

jet approves on Nov 01 '09 at 1:05am

postsecret today.

kevinwells on Nov 01 '09 at 1:11am

1:11!

for the second time in only an hour!

tracerbullet on Nov 01 '09 at 1:50am

as much as i appreciate your grammatical tidbit, i must correct you in that this is NOT daylight saving time. this is actually standard time that we're reverting to. in fact, we're actually losing daylight because it will now get darker earlier.

tracerbullet on Nov 01 '09 at 1:51am

i USED three different types of emphasis in that post.

maddingo on Nov 01 '09 at 1:54am

in a moment of fail I forgot all about this one time in college and went to the wrong class (for like 1/2 the class) because I didn't take the time change into account and was too hung over to quite realize i was in the wrong class... it was pretty funny.

I was quite hung over in my defense however.

spacesick 2 on Nov 01 '09 at 1:00am

bars are open an hour later

jerry maguire is on tbs

I picked the second one

littlem on Nov 01 '09 at 1:00am

oh yeahhh
fall back

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