00:01Clocks across the UK have moved an hour ahead as British summertime begins.
00:05In the northeast, mornings are darker for now, but evenings will stretch longer as spring progresses.
00:10We spoke to people in Newcastle to hear their thoughts on how this seasonal change affects daily life, routines and
00:17the pace of the day.
00:20I think it's an early night situation.
00:22I don't sleep great anyway, so I don't mind it when it's the other way around and then you kind
00:27of get like an extra hour in bed.
00:28But then like having a long shift and then being told at the end of the shift, oh, you have
00:33one less hour in bed before your next one.
00:36I'm just kind of like, great. Why am I doing this?
00:38It's like I haven't slept. It's just a long nap as well.
00:40I prefer to get the bus home when it's light. So probably I prefer a cinema, I guess.
00:47Because it's hard to see where you are on the bus when it's dark, you know, and I live miles
00:51away.
00:53I remember I've been trying to go to bed early and I don't really like it going forward.
00:59I wish it would just stay in one area because they did it for like farmers, didn't they?
01:04And it's not, I don't think it's really relevant nowadays to keep changing the clocks back and forth to be
01:09honest.
01:11British summertime, also known as daylight savings time, was first adopted in the UK over a century ago to make
01:17better use of natural daylights.
01:19With clocks moving forward by one hour recently, the sun rises now later and evenings remain brighter for longer.
01:25Across the northeast, residents might feel the morning shift more sharply, though the extended daylight in the evenings is often
01:31welcomed.
01:32Devices update automatically, generally, but adjusting to change can still feel like a minor disruption to sleep and routines.
01:39Yeah, pretty much the same as that, I don't really see any nervousness. Get up and go to work, you
01:45come back from work.
01:48How do you feel with that? Obviously, the mornings are a bit darker all of a sudden.
01:52Again, you get up, you go to work, you come back from work. It doesn't really make a whole lot
01:58of difference.
01:59So it doesn't really affect your daily routine? No, fair enough.
02:03So it was down to you then, would you keep the clocks the same while you're at?
02:06I'm fairly nonplussed about it all. That really makes no difference to us.
02:15I would just for simplicity. I know my phones and my watches all update themselves these days, but just to
02:23keep life on a level.
02:26Do you know when it comes to changing the clocks, you have that one clock that you don't change until
02:31for six months time and you just let it run?
02:33It's the oven. It's the oven. Definitely the oven and the car sometimes.
02:38For now, northeast mornings remain dimmer for a few weeks, but evenings continue to lengthen as spring progresses.
02:44British summertime will end on the 25th of October when clocks return to Greenwich meantime.
02:50Locals are adjusting to the shift in daylight with opinions reflecting the region's northern experience of the seasons.
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