We shall miss an hour of sleep as clocks will be pushed forward one hour Saturday night, inaugurating the summer schedule.

The nearest chance of sleeping it off will be on October 25th . EU regulations speak of the last Sunday of March and the last Sunday in October each year as the dates for switching from winter to summer time schedules and the other way round. The purpose of the operation is to extend daylight hours during the spring, summer and early autumn season.

Presently, some 70 countries around the world make use of summer and winter time.