Clocks go forward one hour tonight at 1:00am on Sunday 27 March as European Summer Time begins. This means that those who get up at their normal time on Sunday will have one hour less in bed. Most of the countries in Europe still observe the tradition of putting the clocks forward an hour in March and back again in October, but there is growing pressure for the practice to be abandoned and to stay on the same time all the time. Critics argue that changing the clocks causes disruption and that it can have severe effects on, for example, care for animals, whose body clocks don’t change overnight. Russia will put the ... (full story)