Clocks go forward

CLOCKS go forward this weekend meaning lighter and longer days, although we will lost an hour.This Sunday, March 26, clocks will go forward signalling.

If you are keeping the heating on, then you might want to update the timer. This might be another thing to do the night before, rather than on Sunday so your heating comes on when you want it to. But if you are thinking about keeping the heating on, there are things you can do to keep costs lower. So if you've got your heating set to come on then you might want to think about turning it off or setting it to come on for less time. Sometimes it's called Daylight Saving Time. When the clocks go forward, you'll want to change your alarm clocks.

And looking ahead to the autumn, the clocks then go back an hour on Sunday October 29 at 1am. Even so, the debate as to whether we should continue to comply ...

That all adds up to tens of thousands of fewer deaths around the world from just one extra hour of sleep.” “Distress associated with the sudden advancement of sunset, marking the coming of a long period of short days, may explain this finding.” Conversely, the switch from winter to summer time was found to have no effect. “There’s also a big drop in suicides and car crashes worldwide. Research shows that even a small reduction in sleep has been shown to impact your immune system, however. One hour sounds like an insignificant amount of time, but it can completely throw our circadian rhythm, or more simply known as internal clock, off balance,” he says. But what are the advantages of such a decision? [Sleep School](https://www.sleepschool.org/), a science-based sleep education and therapy service, told The Independent that it is “impartial” on the extent to which the clocks changing impacts sleep, arguing that the important factor is the duration of time asleep and a consistent schedule. “One of the biggest disruptors to our sleep is when UK clocks go forward one hour at 1am on the last Sunday in March and go back one hour at 2am on the last Sunday in October, which is rapidly approaching on 30 October. [A Danish study from 2017](http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.lww.com%2Fepidem%2FFulltext%2F2017%2F05000%2FDaylight_Savings_Time_Transitions_and_the.7.aspx&sref=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/when-does-the-clocks-go-back-b2307851.html) of more than 185,000 people over 15 years found that the transition from summer time to standard time was associated with an 11 per cent rise in depressive episodes. “RoSPA is in favour of this proposal, and is calling for the government to adopt British Summer Time (GMT+1) all year,” the society states. [The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/royal-society-for-the-prevention-of-accidents) has called for the abolition of DST, arguing that turning the clocks back increases the risk of road accidents, due to more people driving during darker winter months.

The clocks will jump forward by one hour at 1am this Sunday (March 26) as we move from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) to British Summer Time (BST). This means, if ...

If you are paid by the hour and finish at your scheduled time - meaning you have technically worked an hour less - you may not be paid for the hour lost. "Businesses do need to be careful not to breach the contract by failing to pay a salaried employee for the contractual hours they are entitled to, even if they have worked an hour less," he said. But if you are required to work set hours then your employer may ask you to finish later in order to make up for the one hour lost.