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Daylight Saving Time comes to an end this weekend, ushering in the darker evenings just in time for Hallowe’en.

The 'fall backwards' in time serves an important practical purpose. It was originally devised as a way of maximising the best possible use of the daylight available during the winter.

We’re currently in Irish Standard Time (IST) or British Summer Time (BST) which means that when the clocks change, we will move into Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

This year the clocks will go back at 2am this Sunday, October 29. This will allow you an extra hour in bed.

Lynn McCarron, from Studio 2 pictured here in the lead up to a previous Halloween festival with a timely reminder. DER4318GS034

It also gives us brighter mornings for a while and longer, darker evenings as winter sets in.

The clocks always go back at 2am on the last Sunday in October.

Although the date differs each year, there is a simple way to remember whether clocks go forward or back in spring or autumn, by using the old mnemonic, ‘spring forward, fall back’.

Day and time the clocks go back in UK & Ireland October 2023