UK
Clocks change on the last Sunday in March in the UK and much of Europe. The clocks march forward in March. This chance is also called Daylight saving time. Or British summer time.
The clocks change after midnight during Saturday night, so when you wake up in the morning, any clocks which co-ordinate with a rddio controlled system are automatically updated.
You need to check your watch, microwave, old fashioned battery operated wall clocks. And your car clocks.
With most systems such as a laptop, you have a setting for time and date, so you can change to the local time when travelling.
So, in the UK, in springtime, my watch tells me it is 8 am, time to get up. The Kitchen clock has re-set to 9.
I used to go to a book group on the last Sunday in the month. In Springtime, if I went by my watch on the old time, I was late, because at 4 pm when the meeting started, my watch said it was 3 pm.
You lose an hour of sleep if you get up at the new time. But you catch up later, because the new clock time is already midnight when a watch set to yesterday's time tells your body clock it is only 11 pm.
The clocks are re-set on Sunday, or course, to you can get up when you like, and don't risk being late for work, so long as you don't work on a Sunday.
USA
The Americans have a rhyme to help you to remember which wasy the clocks go. Spring forward, fall back.
The Australian and New Zealanders down under have winter in the UK's summer snd summer in the UK's winter. One might hope that they would change their clocks in the opposite direction on the same day. No. The same day as who? Australis and New Zealand are a day different, especailly if you fly in their diection from the UK.
Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country
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