IF your night felt unusually long and you were surprised it was light when you got out of bed, you may not be keeping track of the time.
(BST) has ended and (GMT) is here until late March 2027. Here’s everything you need to know.
Did the clocks go back last night?
At 2am last night (Sunday, October 25, 2026), the to 1am.
The weekend was chosen for this time change because shifting overnight from Saturday to Sunday .
Making goes back hundreds of years, proposed by Benjamin Franklin in a satirical essay written in 1784.
In the UK, the campaign to make better use of morning sunlight was championed over a century later by the builder .
He published a pamphlet called The Waste of Daylight in 1907, arguing that clocks should move forward during the summer.
But his original plan was far more complicated than the system eventually adopted.
Willett called for clocks to move forward by a total of 80 minutes in four separate 20-minute steps.
Parliament rejected daylight saving legislation proposals on numerous occasions between 1908 and 1916.
That all changed during the First , when received Royal Assent on May 17, 1916.
The clocks moved forward for the first time just days later, on May 21 of that year.
During the Second , the UK went even further, implementing Double Summer Time, which put clocks two hours ahead of GMT during parts of the year.
What time is today’s sunrise?
According to Timeanddate , today’s is at the following times:
- – 6.38am
- – 6.41am
- – 6.55am
- – 6.54am
- – 7.04am
- – 6.53am
- – 7.12am
- – 6.58am
That compares with 7.39am yesterday morning in London.
Unfortunately, sunset will also seem to arrive around an hour earlier:
- Norwich – 4.38pm
- London – 4.46pm
- Newcastle – 4.44pm
- Manchester – 4.50pm
- Edinburgh – 4.48pm
- Cardiff – 4.59pm
- Belfast – 5.02pm
- Truro – 5.09pm
In the capital, sunset moves from 5.48pm yesterday to 4.46pm today.
When do the clocks go forward again?
On Sunday, March 28, 2027, BST returns when the from 1am to 2am, meaning we effectively lose an hour of sleep.
On the last Sunday in October every year the clocks go back, and then they go forward by an hour on the last Sunday in March.
If you can’t remember which way the clocks go, there’s a simple phrase to help you remember: “spring forward, fall back.”
