Every winter, clocks go back one hour and they go forward one hour in spring.
As we’re in Spring, the grand stretch in the evenings is coming back.
The milder weather and more sunshine means we can start to enjoy more daylight.
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When do the clocks go forward in Ireland?
The clocks will go forward on Sunday, 26 March 2023 from 1:00 am.
If you own a smartphone, you don’t need to worry about updating the time because your phone will do it for you.
Any clocks hanging on the wall, you will need to manually update them.
Clocks go back across all EU member states on the last Sunday in October and forward on the last Sunday in March.
Why do they go forward?
Daylight Saving Time (“DST”) is the practice of moving the clocks forward one hour from Standard Time during the summer months and changing them back again in Autumn.
According to the Old Almanac, the general idea is that this allows us all to make better use of natural daylight.
Moving the clocks forward one hour in the spring grants us more daylight during summer evenings, and moving clocks back one hour in the fall grants us more daylight during winter mornings.
Benjamin Franklin’s “An Economical Project,” written in 1784, is the earliest known proposal to “save” daylight.
It advocated laws to compel citizens to rise at the crack of dawn to save the expense of candlelight.
Clocks go back across all EU member states on the last Sunday in October and forward on the last Sunday in March.
In 2019, the EU voted on calling an end to Daylight Saving Time permanently after 2021 based on findings in an EU-wide survey.
EU institutions have not made progress on implementing the decision, and the European Commission has said that it does not plan to submit a new proposal on the matter to the Parliament.
This means that no changes are expected to summer and winter time in the coming years.
As it naturally becomes darker during the winter, the time goes back, giving people an extra hour's sleep in bed.
They then jump forward in the summer months to allow people to enjoy the longer evenings.
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