Grimer Girl here. I'm Minion Fokerti and you can think of me as your friendly guide to

the English language. Writing, history, rules, and cool stuff. Today, in honor of Delight

Saving Time, I have a segment on a few different time-related topics. Another segment about

the origin of the word woman, and a family-led story about sitting be next to someone.

Let's get started.

Many parts of the world are moving from standard time to Delight Saving Time, also called

Summer Time, this week. So I thought it would be a good time to talk about the phrase

Delight Saving Time and Time in general. I still have to think of the pneumonic spring-forward

fallback every time we do this to figure out what to do with my clocks. Since it's spring,

I'll be moving my clocks ahead Saturday night before I go to bed. Technically, the time

changes at 2 a.m. on Sunday, but it's not like I'm going to wait up just to change my clocks.

Britain and Germany were the first countries to institute a time change during World War I.

When the United States joined the war, lawmakers agreed that moving the clocks was a good way

to save energy. In the official 1918 law that established the time change in the US, they named it

Delight Saving Time. It still generally agreed to be Delight Saving Time today, and not Saving's

time, no S at the end. Remember the spelling by thinking that the whole idea was that people were

saving energy, and the words aren't capitalized and there's no hyphen, Delight Saving Time.

And a sad footnote is that supposedly we don't save energy anymore by switching to Delight Saving Time

because the energy we save by not having to turn on the lights as early is more than offset by how

much more we run our air conditioners will be home in the warmer evenings.

Next, we'll talk about time zones. Most countries have signed on to the idea of a standard

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

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