The Time Clocks Go Back

When is daylight saving time in 2020.

The time clocks go back.

In the uk the clocks go forward an hour at 1am on the last. Which is the official hour to set all of our clocks back to standard time. They go back by one hour. The clocks will go forward again on the last sunday of next march at 1am meaning we lose an hour of sleep.

This is designed to make better use of the long sunlight hours over the summer months. It may feel like a long time since the blue skies of summer but this marks the end of british summer time bst. However dst has many detractors and rightfully so. Clocks on smart phones should update automatically but older analogue clocks need changing manually.

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. On the last sunday of october the clocks fall back. 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. But most of us will probably fall back before we go to bed.

It also means an extra hour in bed. The general idea is that this allows us all to make better use of natural daylight. Daylight saving time ends on sunday nov.