At 1am GMT tomorrow morning Sunday 30 March British Summer Time will officially begin when clocks are put forward one hour making it 2am. This will mean that sunrise tomorrow will be at 6.41am compared to 5.43am today and the evenings will seem to stay lighter a lot longer with the sunset tomorrow being at 7.28pm.
Britain’s latitude means that the sunsets will keep getting later until the 21 June, the day with the longest amount of daylight during the year. British Summer Time stays the same until Sunday 26 October 2008 when the clocks go backwards one hour.
The UK first introduced daylight saving time in 1916 during the First World War as a fuel saving measure. The system has seen a few changes in the last decades with a double savings time of two hours ahead in the summer during World war Two, and a three year period when the clocks went forward one hour in March 19868 and didn’t go back until October 1971. There are still various groups and organizations today campaigning for the abolition or retention of British Summer Time.
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