Saturday/Sunday March 28th/29th 2026
Clocks go forward one hour (during the night of Saturday/Sunday morning)
Mornings will be darker but it will stay light longer.
Clocks go back last Sunday in October
DID YOU KNOW?
Do you know why France is an hour ahead of the UK?
Well, apparently you can blame it on history; wars, invasions….and a general apathy!
Blame history — and a bit of geopolitics.
Until 1940, France was on the same time as the UK: Greenwich Mean Time. But during the Second World War, Nazi Germany imposed German time (one hour ahead of Britain) on occupied France.
After the war ended in 1945, France could have returned to GMT — but it didn’t. Bof! Instead, it kept Central European Time (UTC+1), aligning itself with much of mainland Europe.
Spain made a similar shift under General Franco, also moving an hour ahead during the war and never changing back.
France later reintroduced Daylight Saving Time during the 1970s oil crisis to conserve energy — which is why in summer it sits two hours ahead of the UK.
War changed the clocks… and they never quite changed back.
I would love to know why the French government has completely ignored the fact that we voted several years ago to retain summer time and not revert to winter time each autumn. Initially they ‘postponed’ the change due to lockdown, but have conveniently forgotten to fulfill the wishes of the majority ever since.