SZ Daylight Saving Time Shift

In what will come as terrible news for fans of sleep, last night the clocks jumped forward an hour. Good news for those working night shifts, for everyone else the start of BST (British Summer Time) at 1am has made that Sunday lie-in an hour less sweet. If you woke up this morning wondering if your various devices have updated automatically, you can double check the current time here. Why we keep up this confusing practice, first proposed as a joke by Benjamin Franklin in 1784 and originally instigated in the UK in 1916, seems to ...

Having trouble getting out of bed in the morning because it’s so dark? Well, fear not, soon you’ll be seeing the sun earlier, because it’s nearly time to “fall back,” and move our clocks back an hour to Standard Time. If you live in Europe, you’ll move back to Standard Time on Sunday, Oct. 26, in the wee hours of the morning (it varies by country), in Asia, most countries do not observe Daylight Saving. Here is a worldwide breakdown. In the U.S., the clocks will be turned back one hour on Nov. 2, at 2:00 a.m. local time, allowing ...

For those battling with this week's dose of heavy rainfall and gusty winds, British Summer Time will have felt like a long time ago. But the curtain will officially fall on BST this weekend when the clocks go back an hour on Sunday. Debating the effects of turning the clocks back has been a British pastime for more than a century, when the first Daylight Saving Bill was brought before the House of Commons. During the Second World War the Government moved the clocks forward one hour to help munitions factories maximise productivity ...

We are all going to get an hour's sleep this weekend - but enjoy it while it lasts. Scientists say the effect of the clock change wears off very quickly. So while we might sleep extra well on Saturday night, thanks to the clocks going back an hour, we'll be tossing and turning again within just a few days. In other words, our last good sleep of the year is just around the corner. The warning follows a survey of more than 3,000 British adults which revealed that quality of sleep leaps as the clocks change in October. Many people also ...