Time to 'Fall Back' this Sunday

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

It's time to "Fall Back" this weekend.

Congress this year extended daylight savings time by an extra week (confusing many computers that didn't know about the change).

Officially, the end of daylight savings takes place at 2 a.m. Sunday morning when clocks are moved back to 1 a.m. Most people make the change to their clocks when they go to bed Saturday night.

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In my 65 years I've been calling it "Daylight Savings Time" just like so many other folks. I've recently done some reading and learned this program has been around since World War I. Here "saving" is used as a verbal adjective which modifies the word "time," so there shouldn't be an "s" added. The source I read suggested adding a hyphen would have made more sense. "Daylight-Saving Time" (as in "man-eating tiger) would have been more accurate. They said it was confusing, too, as no daylight is actually saved, so the phrase "Daylight Shifting Time" would have been better.

I'm just glad to get an extra hour of sleep on Sunday!

-- Posted by katzenmom on Wed, Oct 31, 2007, at 1:44 PM

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