When do the clocks go back for autumn 2019?

With the weather cooling down and days getting noticeably shorter, the end of daylight saving time in the UK is right around the corner.

Though the evenings are getting darker earlier - it's not all bad news.

The clocks changing this time of year means you'll pick up an extra hour in bed.

This year, you'll have to adjust the time by one hour from 2am on Sunday, October 27 .

The clocks always go forward on the last weekend in March and go back on the final weekend of October.

This is where the phrase 'spring forward, fall back' comes from.

The clocks going back means that the mornings will be lighter but the evenings darker. (Bath Chronicle)

Why do we have  Dayligh t Saving Time?

The tradition of putting clocks forward in spring and back in autumn was started by London builder William Willett in 1907.

He argued that the population's health and happiness would be improved by putting the clocks forward 20 minutes every Sunday in April and with the opposite being done in September.

Willett died in 1915, the year before it was finally introduced in Britain.

So when we are one hour ahead we are on British Summer Time (BST) and when the clocks go back in October each year we are on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).