CLOCKS GO BACK? WHEN? What to do, UK, USA and Co-ordinating

 In the UK British summer time ends the last Sunday in October. In 2024 that is October 27th.

SUMMER TIME SATURDAY

The clocks change after midnight on Saturday, so if you are in bed before 2 a,m, no problem.

Two in the morning is the change over TIME

WINTER TIME SUNDAY

When you get up in the morning some of your clocks may have updated themselves. In the UK my family's computers, laptops, mobile phones, and clocks on radio links had adjusted

 themselves.

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Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Old fashioned watches with the four teeny wheels had to be checked by hand. You might want to check your car clocks. Also we had to do the cooker and the microwave.

Portugal

Portugal, which is on the west of Europe, keeps the same time as the UK, including the British summer time changed forward and back on the same dates. 

EUROPE

The rest of Europe also keeps summer time and changes their clocks. However, France, Spain and the rest of Europe, being geographically further east, are an hour different.

Memory Aid

A good memory for when you change times and in which direction, is in American English. It is Spring forward, Fall back.

The clocks change over the weekend to minimize disruption to the working week.

How does this change affect your Sunday.? In the morning, if you went to bed at midnight nd got up at 8 am, you had eight hours sleep, but the clocks are re-set to seven so you have an extra hour in the morning. 

However, in the evening, when your body clocks says it is midnight, the clocks are telling you it is only 11 pm. If you  go to bed at your body clock time you will be tired if you get up at the clock time on Monday morning.

If it gets dark at 7 pm, yesterday (Saturday) in London or Lisbon, today Sunday the clocks are saying it is only 6 pm when it is getting dark in the UK and Europe from now on it gets light earlier in the morning (supposedly helping farmers) but dark earlier in the evening so we need the Xmas lights to brighten the streets for shoppers and drivers from November.

USA

America observes daylight saving time, except for the states of Arizona and Hawaii.

AUSTRALIA

The seasons are reversed. Clocks change on different days.

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