Re^2: Changes in USA's Daylight Savings Time (DST)

[Smylers]

To further my reputation for inserting tangential trivia instead of just answering a question, let me mention that it is Daylight Saving Time, not Savings.

Well if you're going to be picky, surely a compound preposed adjective should have a hyphen in it:

• "daylight-saving time" parses as "time with daylight saving", which is presumably what is intended.
• "daylight saving time" parses as "saving time with daylight". I've no idea what "saving time" is (as a noun), but perhaps it's something to do with that bank you mentioned ...

To put it in Perl terms: adjectives are right-associative.

Smylers

[anonymized user 468275]

Or to be even more picky, the use of a hyphen is only appropriate when a non-adjective forms part of a compound adjective. The normal but less readable way of denoting two or more adjectives is to use a comma between adjectives. This example, using non-adjectives in the mix, shows where a hyphen is required, where a comma is required and where neither is required (where an adverb describes the adjective):

Really picky, showing-the-commas, daylight-saving time.

-S

[halley]

To be absolutely picky: any proper noun is only properly spelled and pronounced when it is spelled and pronounced the way that the owner wants it spelled and pronounced. Thus, grammar has nothing to do with it.

To put it in Perl terms: Global symbol "Daylight Savings Time" requires explicit package name. Execution aborted due to compilation errors.

[Joost]

To be even more pickier: it's impossible to own a proper noun. (except, maybe, as a trademark)