UK: put your clocks forward tonight!

YES, IT’S come round again. The last Sunday in March is the weekend when we put the clocks an hour forward and glide into British Summer Time (BST).

The clock goes forward at 1am. In other words, when we get to 1am, it’s immediately 2am. Some people change the clocks when they go to bed. Others will wait till they wake up in the morning and try to work out what the time really is. With some clocks now updating themselves to BST automatically, a sleepy-head can be in real danger of getting two hours ahead, not just one.

Why? That’s what we’re thinking when we wake up on Sunday morning having had an hour’s less sleep or realising we have an hour’s less day ahead. There’s lots of theories, but BST means that everyone, across the UK, gets a lighter evening – and the longer days of summer mean we can do that while also having a light morning. That’s reflected in the way that BST is also referred to as Daylight Saving Time (DST).

Whichever way you do it, be prepared for the clock to change. But don’t worry that you are going to lose an hour. One way of remembering what’s going on is the phrase “Spring forward, fall back”. You’ll get that lost hour back in the autumn, when we lose BST in favour of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Put it in your diary now, and look forward to that extra hour of sleep!

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