Have you ever wondered why we have to put the clocks forward in the Spring and back in the Autumn? Well in this video, we share how this started and why we still do this today, the answer may surprise you!

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When the clocks change in the Autumn, it means we move from British Summer Time (BST) also known as GMT+1 back to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and in the Spring we move from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) to British Summer Time (BST).

0:00 Why do we put the clocks forward and back?
0:17 What is British Summer Time and Greenwich Mean Time?
0:32 Why did we start changing the clocks?
0:57 Are we moving the clocks forward or back?
1:09 Spring Forward and Fall Back

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