Did the clocks go forward and when do they 'fall back' in 2023?

The days are getting warmer, spring is here, and now, with the arrival of British Summer Time, the final steps to summer have been taken.

Festivals, holidays and long summer days beckon, along with gardening and nights out under sunset skies.

So with the clocks changing, let’s look at when they go backwards again …

Did the clocks go forward last night?

The clockschanged on Sunday night (to be exact, at 1am on Sunday, March 26, 2023).

If you’d forgotten, you might have been confused at just how late you were up – but 1am became 2am in the wee small hours.

So yes, it’s time to grapple with all those unhelpful clocks that didn’t automatically change – oven and car, we’re looking at you.

British Summer Time (BST) always starts at 1am on the last Sunday in March.

The idea was put forward in 1907 in Britain by builder William Willett, who was angry at the ‘waste of daylight’ during summer mornings, and was adopted by the UK in 1916, during the First World War.

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According to Royal Museums Greenwich, ‘although this change has no effect on the length of each day, sunrise and sunset each appear an hour later in the summer’.

So lighter evenings start right now!

The bad news, however, is you’ve lost an hour in bed. Unless you’re not working today of course, in which case you can just have a long lie in.

If you feel a bit jet-lagged and struggle to sleep after the clocks change, check out these helpful tips.

When do the clocks ‘fall back’ an hour?

We’ll stay on British Summer Time until October 29, 2023 at 2am – that’s when the clocks go back to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Yes, it makes the evenings darker, but that’s when you can catch up on that extra hour in bed!

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