Talk:daylight savings time

Usage notes

Do Americans not use a hyphen to save confusion? ( - a confusion-saving device!) Dbfirs 21:42, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

I've never seen it with a hyphen. --EncycloPetey 21:44, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes, on checking, I find that the unhyphenated form is much more common, despite logic and some manuals of style preferring the hyphen. Dbfirs 09:07, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

savings versus saving

I started to edit this because its former claim "Most websites use daylight savings time" is not what its raw Google searches showed and show! These raw Googles are on the contrary inconclusive, showing only a slight preference (24%) for savings, and raw Google searches are in any case not a reliable source for Wiktionary because they include use by non-native speakers. More conclusive are Google edu searches (US university + school sites) showing a clear preference (180% more i.e. 2.8 times as many) for savings: 74,700 for site:edu "daylight savings time" 26,400 for site:edu "daylight saving time" and no preference on UK university sites 483 from ac.uk for "daylight savings time" 455 from ac.uk for "daylight saving time". And news websites prefer daylight saving time (100% more i.e. 2 times as many): 239 for daylight-saving-time to 119 for daylight-savings-time. --Espoo 23:07, 24 October 2009 (UTC)