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Many parts of the world are moving from Daylight Saving Time, also called Summertime, to

Standard Time this week.

So I thought it would be a good time to talk about the phrase Daylight Saving Time and

Time in general.

Most usage guides recommend using a hyphen, so the phrase is Daylight hyphen Saving Time

with no capital letters.

So it's Saving, not Saving's time.

Just remember that you're saving time, Daylight Time, to be exact.

That's the reason for the hyphen, too.

Daylight hyphen Saving is a compound modifier that applies to time.

Most countries have signed on to the idea of a standard world time system.

For them, the world is divided into 24 time zones, and each zone differs by an hour

from the time zone next to it.

Not everyone uses this system, though.

So the zones don't participate in Daylight Saving Time, and a few places divide their

region to half-hour zones.

Actually, it's even more complicated than that.

Arizona, for example, doesn't participate in Daylight Saving Time, but other states in

the same time zone do.

So during Standard Time, it's the same time in Arizona and Utah, but during Daylight Saving

Time, it's an hour earlier in Arizona.

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