British Summer Time, also known as Daylight Saving Time, was the brainchild of a builder from Kent called William Willett. The story goes that one day on his way back from riding his horse in Petts ...

As clocks in England went back one hour on October 29, it's safe to say that autumn is well and truly here. It marked the end of British Summer Time (BST), meaning the UK is now operating on ...

British Summer Time: How do you change the time on Big Ben's big clock? Sky News go behind the scenes at Elizabeth Tower where Big Ben mechanics prepare for a clock change.

British summer time, we can almost taste you. As the sun shines brighter each morning and sets a little later each evening, you might be reminded that the clocks are due to change sometime soon.

The clocks will "spring forward" by an hour at 1am on the last Sunday in March, which this year falls on Sunday, March 30, and signals the start of British Summer Time (BST) ...

GMT was the default legal time used in Britain from 1880 before DST was proposed in 1907, meaning when the clocks go back everyone returns to the default time zone.

Since then, the UK uses Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) from the last Sunday in October and during the winter months and British Summer Time from spring to summer. More than 70 countries around the world ...

The clocks will "spring forward" by an hour at 1am on the last Sunday in March, which this year falls on Sunday, March 30, and signals the start of British Summer Time (BST) ...

British Summer Time 2025 starts as the clocks go forward one hour at 1am on Sunday 30 March, giving us more daylight in the evenings, but should it be that way all year round?

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