Daylight saving time dst is the practice of moving the clocks forward one hour from standard time during the summer months and changing them back again in the fall.
The time clocks go back.
This is designed to make better use of the long sunlight hours over the summer months.
On the last sunday of october the clocks fall back.
When is daylight saving time in 2020.
In the uk the clocks go forward an hour at 1am on the last.
When do the clocks go back.
It also means an extra hour in bed.
The general idea is that this allows us all to make better use of natural daylight.
Clocks on smart phones should update automatically but older analogue clocks need changing manually.
They go back by one hour.
However dst has many detractors and rightfully so.
But most of us will probably fall back before we go to bed.
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The clocks will go forward again on the last sunday of next march at 1am meaning we lose an hour of sleep.
In the early hours of sunday october 25 at 2am the uk will revert to greenwich mean time gmt by going back one hour to 1am marking the official end of british.
Once the clocks have been put back they will remain that way until next year when they will be put forward again on 28 march 2021.