At 1am on March 31, 2024, the time on Irish clocks 'sprang forward' to 2am. Now, with shorter evenings on the horizon, clocks are set to 'fall back' an hour at 2am on October 27, 2024. As it ...

The custom of changing the clocks twice a year has been around in the UK for over a century, taking place once in March and once in October. There’s still a little while until the clocks change ...

Fall approaches, and here’s when it is and when you need to change your clocks. Daylight saving time ends on Sunday, Nov. 3. Californians will have to set their clocks back one hour on that day.

Clocks will "fall back" one hour at 2 a.m. on Nov. 3, granting most people an extra hour of sleep. With the change comes earlier sunrises and nightfall well before 7 p.m. It won't be until March ...

Today most electric clocks or watches measure the steady vibrations of quartz crystals. But even the best pacemakers drift; in one form or another, creeping chaos eventually corrupts the order of ...

FOR THE discerning timekeeper, only an atomic clock will do. Whereas the best quartz timepieces will lose a millisecond every six weeks, an atomic clock might not lose a thousandth of one in a decade.

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Ekkehard Peik is a clock-maker. But instead of spending his days looking at tiny cogs and springs through a magnifying glass, the tools of his trade are powerful lasers, wires and, occasionally ...

The unofficial holiday is denoted by our cellphone clocks falling back an hour in the middle of the night, granting some of us an extra hour of sleep. Despite that positive, it also brings some ...

Though Labor Day has passed and fall starts in less than three weeks, we’re still more than eight weeks from the end of Daylight Saving Time and turning our clocks back one hour. Daylight Saving ...