Wigan pupils remind us all that we lose an hour's sleep this weekend as the clocks go forward
Youngsters at St Thomas’s CE Primary School, Ashton-in-Makerfield, have been learning to tell the time recently.
And the lessons have come in particularly handy this weekend as they remind us all to put our clocks forward this weekend.
Greenwich Mean Time ends at 1am on Sunday, March 29, we lose an hour and suddenly it is British Summer Time (sometimes called Daylight Saving Time).
The consequence of this is that it will be darker again in the mornings for a while but we will enjoy more daylight in the evenings.
Benjamin Franklin, the US founding father and inventor, first proposed daylight saving in 1784 as a way to save on candles.
But it was started in Germany during World War One as a way to save energy resources such as coal, using fewer electric lights and less heating during the lighter evenings and being more productive.
Weeks after Germany introduced DST, other countries adopted the idea, including the UK.