British Summer Time (BST) has officially begun ... but nothing was done until the First World War. The turning point came when Germany moved clocks forward to conserve energy in the spring ...

On the last Sunday of March, the country moves to British Summer Time (BST). The clocks will go forward at the end of March as the UK moves to British Summer TimeCredit: Getty The change sees the ...

The UK and several other European countries followed a few weeks later, and daylight savings soon became the norm, with the US joining in 1918. The idea of British Summer Time was first introduced ...

Weeks later other countries followed suit, including the UK, where it was named British Summer Time. During World War Two in 1941, the then-prime minister Winston Churchill introduced a system ...

59% of Britons would opt for the country to stay permanently on BST. Alex Mayer, Labour MP for Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard, has called for a “major overhaul of time” and a conversation ...