Millions of people across Britain will enjoy an extra hour in bed when the clocks go back at 2am on Sunday.
The fall back marks the end of British Summer Time (BST) and the return to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Clocks will move forward next year on Sunday, March 28, when BST returns and the days will start to get longer.
The annual autumn ritual is familiar to generations of Britons, but the practice of changing the clocks is little more than a century old, and there have been repeated calls to scrap it.
The system is intended to make better use of available daylight, shifting an
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