It's been a long old winter with cold and windy weather, the cost of living rising and Covid restrictions in place.
But March is upon us and that means spring, new life and longer days as we head towards summer.
And it's not too long until we have to reset our clocks as they go forward an hour for British Summer Time.
In the UK the clocks go forward one hour at 1am on the last Sunday in March, and back one hour at 2am on the last Sunday in October.
So for 2022, the clocks will go forward one hour on Sunday, March 27, at 1am.
The period when the clocks are one hour ahead is called British Summer Time (BST). There’s more daylight in the evenings and less in the mornings (sometimes called Daylight Saving Time).
When the clocks go back, the UK is on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
A good way to remember it is the saying "spring forward, fall back".
Why do we change the clocks?
Benjamin Franklin, an American politician, inventor and Founding Father, first came up with the idea while in Paris in 1784, the BBC reported.
He suggested that if people got up earlier, when it was lighter, then it would save on candles.
But it arrived in the UK after Coldplay singer Chris Martin's great-great-grandfather, a builder called William Willett, thought it was a good idea too.
In 1907 he published a leaflet called The Waste of Daylight, encouraging people to get out of bed earlier.
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