It's nearly time sun, with longer days, shorter nights – British Summer Time is almost upon us!

That means it's also time to change the clocks.

Which way do they go?

We're afraid to say it's not good. You're losing an hour of sleep as the clocks go forward.

For many of us the panic of wondering when you will have to tackle resetting the clock on your central heating system is beginning is more of a problem than losing an hour’s sleep.

Despite 2014 being the 98th year of British Summer Time it still seems to send people into a panic every year.

This year the clocks will go forward on Sunday March 30.

Why?

British Summer Time was first proposed in Britain by William Willett, who was incensed at the ‘waste’ of useful daylight first thing in the morning, during summer.

He proposed the idea in 1907, but it was not until 1916 the British government chose to adopt BST in order to be on the same time as the Germans who had adopted the idea several weeks earlier.

In 1968 to 1971 when the clocks went forward, Britain experimented with keeping BST and not turning the clocks back for winter. But the Home Office eventually abandoned the idea.

Since then people have been struggling to get to grips with which way the clocks will change, although the saying “Spring forward, fall backwards” helps a huge number of us.

On Sunday March 30 at 1am the clocks must be turned forward 60 minutes.

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