THIS weekend sees the official start of British Summer Time – at least according to the clock.

At 1am on Sunday morning (March 30), clocks in the UK go forward by an hour, marking the beginning of the summer period (BST).

The change means there is more daylight in the evenings and less in the mornings, sometimes called Daylight Saving Time.

When the clocks go back, in October, the UK is on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Will I lose an hour in bed when the clocks change?

In the spring, when the UK clocks change to BST, unfortunately, we lose an hour in bed. Instead of alarms going off at 6am, that is now 7am – so 6am is now the former 5am.

Why do the clocks change?

Royal Museums Greenwich explained the reason for the change as follows: “The clocks go forward for the summer because of a campaign at the beginning of the 20th century to change the clocks during the summer months, in a practice known as British Summer Time.

“The original campaign attempted to argue that by changing the clocks during the summer people in the northern hemisphere could make more use of the earlier daylight hours.”