With the clocks going back on October 30, Dr Lindsay Browning, psychologist, neuroscientist and sleep expert for And So To Bed says people can start adjusting now. William Willett suggested the changing of the clocks in 1907.
He wanted to stop the waste of early morning daylight and introduce brighter evenings during the summer months. British Summer Time was introduced in 1916 as an Act of Parliament.
In the UK, the clocks go forward one hour at 1am on the last Sunday in March, and back one hour at 2am on the last Sunday in October. The period when the clocks are an hour ahead is called British Summer Time (BST). There’s more daylight in the evenings and less in the mornings (sometimes called Daylight Saving Time).
