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This winter has felt like a long one and you are probably looking forward to the extra daylight hours already.<\/p>\n
The clocks will \u201cspring forward\u201d as we head towards summer, and in just a matter of weeks the evenings will get longer.<\/p>\n
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On Sunday, March 29, clocks across Britain will move forward by one hour at 1am.<\/p>\n
This means that the official start of British Summer Time (BST), this year comes a day earlier than in 2025.<\/p>\n
The clocks will then return to standard time on the last Sunday in October.<\/p>\n
Certain parts of the UK will experience sunsets beyond 8pm, including County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, immediately after the clock change.<\/p>\n
However, for London, it will take nearly three weeks more before an after-8pm sunset arrives, as people living in the capital will have to wait until April 17.<\/p>\n
According to forecasts, in Edinburgh the first post-8pm sunset is likely to occur around April 6.<\/p>\n
While you will have to wait until April 10 if you live in Cardiff, or until April 12 if you\u2019re from Birmingham.<\/p>\n
The clocks go forward in the UK as it\u2019s a tradition that was first established in 1916.<\/p>\n
The original idea of maximising daylight hours was initially proposed by American inventor Benjamin Franklin in 1784 and subsequently examined in a pamphlet called \u201cThe Waste of Daylight\u201d by British writer William Willett in 1907.<\/p>\n
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Germany was the first country to introduce daylight saving time in 1916, a year after Willett\u2019s death, and the UK followed swiftly, along with many other nations involved in the First World War.<\/p>\n
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