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Every year in the UK, our clocks go forward on the last Sunday in March - to create British Summer Time. During BST, there’s more daylight in the evenings and less in the mornings - also known ...
‘Spring forward, fall back’. In spring, the clocks go forward one hour and British Summer Time begins. In autumn (fall), the clocks go back as British Summer Time comes to an end and the UK reverts ...
The system, called daylight saving time in the US or summer time in the EU and Britain, can be easily remembered using the phrase “spring forward, fall back”. As it stands under EU law ...
The clocks are set to go forward this weekend, marking the beginning of British Summer Time (BST). It means we’ll miss out on an hour’s worth of sleep - but it’s not all bad news ...
The clocks go forward on Sunday, meaning the evenings will be getting much lighter - even if it does mean losing an hour in bed. But this hasn't always been the case. Although the idea of daylight ...
It's that time of year when we gain an hour of sleep as the clocks go back, but why does this happen?
The shift happens at 1am on the last Sunday of March, this year landing on Sunday, March 30, and heralds the commencement of ...
For others, it’s the first time you head out without a coat. But most people see it as when we turn our clocks forward by an hour as British Summer Time (BST) kicks off. We ‘Spring Forward ...
A Labour MP’s push to adopt what’s dubbed “British Double Summer Time” – moving the clocks by two hours on Sunday (30th) instead of just one – were today nixed by the government ...
British Summer Time: How do you change the time on Big Ben's big clock? Sky News go behind the scenes at Elizabeth Tower where Big Ben mechanics prepare for a clock change.
The clocks are set to ‘spring forward’ by one hour this weekend - marking the start of Daylight Saving Time. Also known as British Summer Time (BST), this changing of the clocks - moving them ...
Daylight Saving, or Summer Time, was introduced in Great Britain and Ireland on 21 May 1916. The Irish daily newspapers published articles on the eve of the change explaining the measure ...