Volunteers at a 17th-century country house have adjusted historic timepieces ahead of the clocks going forward tonight. The Grade I-listed mansion Kingston Lacy, located near Wimborne Minster, Dorset, has an extensive inventory of antique timepieces, including the impressive 'eight day' Tavern clock. The clocks annually go forward by an hour at 1am GMT on the last Sunday of March, switching from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) to British Summer Time (BST). The clocks therefore went forward two hours in the summer while the winter clocks kept to an hour ahead of GMT - which remained between 1939 and 1945. Former prime minister Harold Wilson then trialled British Standard Time between 1968 and 1971, as clocks went forward but not back.

Source: Daily Mail March 28, 2026 20:16 UTC