Daylight Saving(s) Time

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:14 PM -0500 2/10/03, Sam Clements wrote:
>Why and when did people start saying Daylight SavingS Time rather than the
>original Daylight Saving Time?  Why did they add the final "s" onto saving?
>
>Sam Clements

Bolinger talks about this somewhere.  His idea is that it's a blend
of "Daylight Saving" with "Savings Bank", "Savings account", etc., or
that the former has been reanalyzed through influence by the latter.
Seems plausible, but hard to prove.

Larry