Is it daylight saving or daylight savings?

Answer 1

1. Time as adjusted to achieve longer evening daylight, especially in summer, by setting the clocks an hour ahead of the standard time.

The artificial moving of clock time relatively to the Earth's time, so that the evenings appear longer at cost of later dawns. It was introduced in the UK during WW2, to reduce the need for artificial light in the working day, and became known as British Summer Time, one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time that is the international meridian time. (In fact that has slipped fractionally thanks to Continental Drift carrying NW Europe, with the British Isles being on the same continental plate, NE at about 20mm/year - 1 metre in 2 centuries! For accurate work a corrected version called Universal Co-ordinated Time is used.) Despite its introduction being over 70 years ago it is still contentious in the UK, partly because of the marked differences in day-lengths and their seasonal differences between the North of Scotland and the South of England. It is also responsible for a very widely-held notion that somehow the two annual changes lose or gain you an hour in bed. The official change-time is at 2am but many change their clocks before going to bed, hence their "loss" or "gain". Most European countries are an hour ahead of GMT during the Winter, so 2 hrs ahead in Summer. NB: the actual daylight lengths do not change - only our references to them.

Answer 2

Daylight Saving Time gives us the opportunity to enjoy sunny summer evenings by moving our clocks an hour forward in the spring.

Yet, the implementation of Daylight Saving Time has been fraught with controversy since Benjamin Franklin conceived of the idea. Even today, regions and countries routinely change their approaches to Daylight Saving Time.

Answer 3

1. Time as adjusted to achieve longer evening daylight, especially in summer, by setting the clocks an hour ahead of the standard time.

The artificial moving of clock time relatively to the Earth's time, so that the evenings appear longer at cost of later dawns. It was introduced in the UK during WW2, to reduce the need for artificial light in the working day, and became known as British Summer Time, one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time that is the international meridian time. (In fact that has slipped fractionally thanks to Continental Drift carrying NW Europe, with the British Isles being on the same continental plate, NE at about 20mm/year - 1 metre in 2 centuries! For accurate work a corrected version called Universal Co-ordinated Time is used.) Despite its introduction being over 70 years ago it is still contentious in the UK, partly because of the marked differences in day-lengths and their seasonal differences between the North of Scotland and the South of England. It is also responsible for a very widely-held notion that somehow the two annual changes lose or gain you an hour in bed. The official change-time is at 2am but many change their clocks before going to bed, hence their "loss" or "gain". Most European countries are an hour ahead of GMT during the Winter, so 2 hrs ahead in Summer. NB: the actual daylight lengths do not change - only our references to them.

Answer 4

it is Daylight Saving Time- no S after Saving

BUT

Most people say Daylight Savings Time..Why?

When people say the phrase 'Daylight Savings Time' it sounds like a possessive noun, as in, the time that belongs to Daylight Saving, hence it's Daylight Saving's time. But, in actuality "Daylight Saving" is being used as an adjective - as in time that is saving daylight.

Answer 5

The correct term is "daylight saving time" (singular), not "daylight savings time" (plural). "Daylight saving time" refers to the practice of setting the clock forward by one hour during the warmer months to extend evening daylight.