Given the time of year we must once again be ready to pull sour faces and make rude noises when anyone says ‘daylight savings’ in our presence. It is not plural. There is no terminal ‘s’. Why people keep doing this I cannot understand. The (singular) expression ‘daylight saving’ names a single technique, or method, for making more use of evening daylight during the summer months – one technique (or methodology) in the singular.
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