Timezone translations

[Oscar van Vlijmen]

Webster's (an American English dictionary; Collegiate edition) says:

* daylight saving time: time usually one hour ahead of standard time --
called also daylight time.

* savings: money put by.

* summer time: chiefly British: daylight saving time.

* summertime: the summer season or a period like summer.

* wintertime: the season of winter.

* winter time: [not in the dictionary].

Interestingly, I found in a British dictionary from Penguin Books:

* summer-time: system whereby clocks are put one hour ahead in summer;
summer.

Yes, with a hyphen and meaning both, i.e. the American summer time &
summertime.

Factoid for translators:
In the Dutch language (spoken in The Netherlands and in Belgium - Flanders)
we call DST "zomertijd" and standard time "wintertijd".

Oscar van Vlijmen
2005-06-06