do the clocks go back or forward tonight?

Answer 1

back a hour

Answer 2

Clocks go Back and Hour tonight heres a hint to remember

in the Fall your clock Falls back an Hour
in the Spring your clock Springs Ahead and Hour

Answer 3

Clock tonight go forward 2 hr and back 3 hr due to the polar size effect => Back 1 hr

Answer 4

Best way to remember it is like this;

In the FALL the clocks FALL BACK an hour.

In the SPRING the clocks SPRING FORWARD an hour.

Too easy.

Answer 5

They go back one hour at 2am, so tonight is the night to go clubbing. Stupid idea though, it makes the mornings a little lighter but I have to leave and come back for my second shift in pitch blackness. Plus till your body adjusts, you have to wait what FEELS LIKE an extra hour to go home. :(

I've got one then, seeing all the poets are out...

Tick! Tock! by The Mole
(c)2006 Stupid Poems Ltd.

In the Winter it is dark and gloomy
In the Summer, hot and light
The clock going back in October
Leaves me feeling grumpy
And ready to pick a fight
Bah!

Answer 6

The way to remember is spring forward and fall back

So they go back an hour at 2am

Answer 7

I always remember this one, because I was on night phone duty at Uni on the night the clocks went back. It meant that I had to do an extra hour to everyone else and it still bugs me even now!!!!!

Answer 8

Several countries and regions in the far west of Europe use a similar daylight saving scheme.

* in the United Kingdom it is called British Summer Time (BST).
* in the Republic of Ireland it is called Irish Summer Time (IST).
* in continental Portugal, the Madeira Islands and the Canary Islands it is called Western European Summer Time (WEST).

The scheme runs from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October each year. At both the start and end of the schemes, clock changes take place at 01:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT/UTC).

While the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland always keep the same time as each other, there is a slight difference how they maintain it. In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland standard time is (GMT/UTC) and the clocks are moved forward one hour for summer. In Republic of Ireland (according to the Standard Time Act 1968) standard time was CET and the clocks were turned back one hour for winter time. However, this was later amended under the Standard Time Act of 1971, which changed the standard time in the Republic of Ireland to Greenwich Mean Time.

The start and end dates of the scheme are somewhat asymmetrical in terms of daylight hours; for example, the time of year with a similar amount of daylight to late October is mid-February, well before the start of summer time. The asymmetry reflects temperature more than the length of daylight.
Occasional debate breaks out over the validity of BST, due to Britain's latitudinal length. In 2004, an interesting contribution was made by English MP Nigel Beard, who tabled a Private Member's Bill in the House of Commons proposing that England and Wales should be able to determine their own time independently of Scotland and Northern Ireland. If it had been passed into law, this bill would potentially have seen the United Kingdom with two different timezones for the first time since the abolition of Dublin Mean Time (25 minutes behind Greenwich) on August 23rd 1916.

During World War II, Britain retained the hour's advance on GMT at the start of the winter of 1940 and continued to advance the clocks by an extra hour during the summers until the end of the summer of 1944. During these summers Britain was thus 2 hours ahead of GMT and operating on British Double Summer Time (BDST). The clocks were not advanced for the summer of 1945 and were reverted to GMT at the end of the summer of 1945. In 1947 the clocks were advanced by one hour twice during the spring and put back twice during the autumn so that Britain was on BDST during the height of the summer.

Safety campaigners, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), have made recommendations that British Summer Time be maintained during the winter months, and that a "double summertime" be applied to the current British Summer Time period, putting the UK two hours ahead of GMT during summer. RoSPA suggest this would reduce the number of accidents over this period as a result of the lighter evenings, as was demonstrated when the British Standard Time scheme was trialled between 1968 and 1971, when Britain remained on UTC+1 all year. RoSPA have called for the two year trial to be repeated with modern evaluation methods. The proposal is opposed by farmers and other outdoor workers, and many residents of Scotland, as it would mean that, in northern Britain, the winter sunrise would not occur until 10:00 or even later.

Answer 9

clocks go back tonight---spring forward fall back!

Answer 10

It's fall back (backwards)

In the fall, the clocks fall back.
In the spring, the clocks spring forward.

This helps make it easier to remember :*)

Answer 11

Fall back. and spring forward. It is a little saying to allow myself to remember.