You may be saying it wrong: What to know about Daylight Saving Time
On Sunday we spring forward once again where the pivoting of the hour hand means more sunlight in the evenings. Even though we do this dance twice a year, many of us are saying it wrong.
On March 13 at 2 a.m. time will become 3 a.m., and for those of us with clocks connected to wi-fi the change will seem as if that hour slipped out of existence. But one thing that continues to exist is an extra "s" in many people's vernacular.
Daylight Saving Time is what the time period we are entering is called — not Daylight Savings Time as many pronounce it.
Where did the extra "s" come from?
TimeandDate.com suggests that we made a connection to other words in our vocabulary like "savings" account and applied the "s" to other uses of the word saving.
The intent of the time shift is for saving daylight, not put it into savings. However, if you really want to keep the "s," I suppose you could look at it as banking daylight for later in the day.
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Outside of the U.S., the shift is commonly referred to as Summer Time, as in British Summer Time (BST) or “Sommerzeit” in Germany.
Whatever you choose to call it, on Saturday sunrise and sunset will be at 6:11 a.m. and 5:55 p.m. but on Sunday will be 7:09 a.m. and 6:56 p.m. We'll stay in that pattern until falling back into eastern standard time on Nov. 6.
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This article originally appeared on Burlington Free Press: Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday, which many people mispronounce
