{"id":159,"date":"2024-10-31T11:24:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T11:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2024-11-01T06:37:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T06:37:12","slug":"have-the-clocks-gone-back-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/have-the-clocks-gone-back-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Have the clocks gone back in UK ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes,\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0UK, the\u00a0clocks have gone back!\u00a0British\u00a0Summer\u00a0Time\u00a0has come to an end\u00a0on the last Sunday\u00a0in\u00a0October each year\u00a0when\u00a0it\u00a0has gone\u00a0back by one hour at 2 a.m. <strong>In 2024,\u00a0that\u00a0date\u00a0was\u00a027 October<\/strong>;\u00a0the whole\u00a0nation sleeps\u00a0an extra hour\u00a0since\u00a0the nation\u00a0moves\u00a0into\u00a0days\u00a0of fewer daylight hours\u00a0and\u00a0more\u00a0dark\u00a0nights.\u00a0That\u00a0brings\u00a0back\u00a0early dark evenings\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0night,\u00a0a\u00a0far\u00a0cry\u00a0from\u00a0the\u00a0bright\u00a0blue skies of summer.<br><br>A simple\u00a0mnemonic\u00a0is\u00a0to remember the\u00a0direction\u00a0of the\u00a0change\u00a0in\u00a0the terms\u00a0of\u00a0the seasons\u00a0such\u00a0as\u00a0spring forward\u00a0and\u00a0fall back. In\u00a0fact,\u00a0it\u00a0was a\u00a0practice\u00a0aimed\u00a0at\u00a0conserving\u00a0daylight\u00a0better\u00a0that\u00a0initiated\u00a0the adjustment\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0clocks,\u00a0and\u00a0such\u00a0an\u00a0adjustment\u00a0has\u00a0been part of\u00a0the history of daylight saving\u00a0as\u00a0described\u00a0in\u00a0institutions like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmg.co.uk\/royal-observatory\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rmg.co.uk\/royal-observatory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Royal Observatory Greenwich.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-9444868733882453\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9444868733882453\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"7270470645\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes,\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0UK, the\u00a0clocks have gone back!\u00a0British\u00a0Summer\u00a0Time\u00a0has come to an end\u00a0on the last Sunday\u00a0in\u00a0October each year\u00a0when\u00a0it\u00a0has gone\u00a0back by one hour at 2 a.m. In 2024,\u00a0that\u00a0date\u00a0was\u00a027 October;\u00a0the whole\u00a0nation sleeps\u00a0an extra hour\u00a0since\u00a0the nation\u00a0moves\u00a0into\u00a0days\u00a0of fewer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weeglasgow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}