Friday 14:43
British summer time will begin on Sunday 30 March 2008 at 1am GMT throughout European Union Member States. The clocks go forward, losing an hour; this means that at 1.00am GMT the UK will move to 2.00am British Summer Time.
Notes to editors:
1. The 9th EC Directive on summer time harmonised, for an indefinite period, the dates on which summer time begins and ends across member states as the last Sundays in March and October respectively. Under the Directive, summer time begins and ends at 1am GMT in each Member State. Amendments to the Summer Time Act to implement the Directive came into force on 11 March 2002.
2. Time zones are the responsibility of individual Member States and vary across the EU. The UK is not planning to change the present summer time arrangements.
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