Clocks in Britain are to be twisted back from “daylight-saving time” to standard time – closer to natural solar time – on Sunday October 27. Machines will do it at 2 AM, two hours into Sunday. Humans, unless they want wake up at such a time and fumble for their clocks, will do it on Saturday evening. Or, on Sunday morning, remember that their clocks are saying seven and should say six.
Until next March 30, clocks will be saying “12” when it’s really the middle of daytime and the Sun is highest, instead of an hour earlier.
For the history of this interference with time, its variations, and my opinion of it, see our page on clock shifting times.
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People that complain that there aren’t enough hours in the day will be happy that 10/26 has 25 hours.
Not just in Britain! Throughout the United Kingdom.
And in Ireland which is the most civilised country in the world. Proof? Monday is a public holiday. In other words, we get a day off to recover from an extra hour in bed. QED.