The clocks will go forward again on the last sunday of next march at 1am meaning we lose an hour of sleep.
The time clocks go back.
It may feel like a long time since the blue skies of summer but this marks the end of british summer time bst.
Which is the official hour to set all of our clocks back to standard time.
They go back by one hour.
In the uk the clocks go forward an hour at 1am on the last.
3 at 2 a m.
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.
It also means an extra hour in bed.
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.
When do the clocks go back.
Clocks on smart phones should update automatically but older analogue clocks need changing manually.
The general idea is that this allows us all to make better use of natural daylight.
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.
On the last sunday of october the clocks fall back.
However dst has many detractors and rightfully so.
But most of us will probably fall back before we go to bed.