Background on the United Kingdom’s Time Zone Timeanddate.com
gives a brief overview of the United Kingdom’s (UK) time zone
and daylight saving time (DST). The UK is on Greenwich Mean Time
(GMT) when it does not observe daylight saving time (DST). There
is no offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) during the
non-daylight saving period. The UK switches from GMT to British
Summer Time (BST), which is UTC+1, when it starts its daylight
saving schedule. Daylight Saving Schedule The UK observes
daylight saving time (DST) as part of the European Union’s (EU)
daylight saving schedule, which starts on the last Sunday of
March each year when the clocks move one hour ahead from 1am (or
01:00) to 2am (02:00) local time. The clocks then move one hour
back from 2am (02:00) to 1am (01:00) local time when DST ends on
the last Sunday of October each year. Daylight saving time is
commonly known as “summer time” or “British Summer Time” in the
UK. A Brief History of Time in the United Kingdom Many sources
state that that