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There's daylight saving time and then there's MBTA saving time

By adamg on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 6:13pm

Blake Wexler reports the T set the clocks at Park Street ahead two hours this morning, but adds:

Even with that standard trains are STILL running late.

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By ljd on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 7:46pm.

It's "Daylight Saving Time," not "Daylight Savings Time." It has nothing to do with savings accounts (you're banking the hour to get it back later?... with interest???). It means daylight-saving, as a hyphenated adjective (but without the hyphen).

OK, done geeking out for the day.

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By adamg on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 7:55pm.

But why do I want to buy a mattress all of a sudden?

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By Jay Levitt on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 9:15pm.

If we're leaving off the last S, and that's the S for savings, aren't we leaving off the savings?

That seems kinda like "and add an extra R in the middle - that's the R for the runaround we're not giving you!"

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By UserGoogol on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 9:41pm.

Daylight savings time is by far the more popular usage. And if you want to parse it, savings can refer to anything that is saved, not just savings accounts. So because we are saving daylight, we have daylight savings. And daylight savings time just makes more sense with how language is used in general. And adjectivizing present participles just sounds weird; like if we called lunch "food eating time."

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By pierce on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 9:34pm.

of course trains would be late by the standard of a clock that's an hour early

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By roadman on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 1:52pm.

the clocks on at least two of the message boards said "9:50".

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