Explainer: Why do the clocks go back – and what did Coldplay’s Chris Martin’s great-great-grandfather have to do with it?

Here is everything you need to know about when and why the clocks ‘fall’ back
The colder season brings darker days and a change to the time zone, meaning everyone gets an extra hour of sleep on Sunday… or should get an extra hour of sleep on Sunday. Here is everything else you need to know about when and why the clocks “fall” back.When are the clocks going back?Every year clocks go back an hour at 2am on the last Sunday of October.This year the clocks will go back on October 27 2024.When the clocks change, so does the UK’s time zone; it switches from British Summer Time to Greenwich Mean Time.It is also known as moving from Daylight Saving Time to Daylight Standard Time.What does this mean for our sunlight?Turning the clocks back moves an hour of sunlight from the evenings to the mornings because sunrises and sunsets occur an hour earlier.The shift marks the build-up to the darkest day of the year known as the winter solstice, which is followed by the latest sunrise.As…