Time change trick: clock forward or backward? How to remember it

The time change is always an annoying problem, since hardly anyone can remember whether the clock must now be set an hour ahead or an hour back. We will tell you a few small tricks on how you can better remember the time change in the future.

Forwards or backwards? With this trick you can easily master the time change

Forwards or backwards, a question that most of us ask ourselves at least twice a year. In any case, it is certain that the clocks are changed by one hour each in spring and autumn. With the following little donkey bridge you will always know exactly in which direction you have to turn the hands.

• With the help of the small sequence of numbers 2-3-2, it will be quite easy to always turn the pointer in the right direction in the future.
• In the spring, the clock is introduced from two to three o'clock.
• In winter, the pointer is then turned back from three to two.

Daylight saving time is how the clock is changed

At the beginning of summer time, the clocks are put forward one hour so that it stays light one hour longer in the evening. The idea behind this was that this would reduce electricity consumption.

• The change from winter time to summer time always takes place on the last Sunday in March.
• Punctually at 2 a.m. in the early morning, the timepieces are presented at 3 a.m.
• As a donkey bridge, you can remember that at the beginning of spring, everyone flows outside again. The time of the beer gardens and festivals begins, and the clock also leaps forward.
• If you have a garden, make sure that you bring the garden furniture and the cold-sensitive plants back into the garden in spring. So it goes forward and so you set the clock one hour ahead.

Winter time - this is how the clocks are set

The change from summer time to winter time, which is actually normal time, always takes place on the last Sunday in October. In the winter time, the "stolen" hour in spring is brought back.

• To get back the missing time, the clocks are turned back in the early morning, from 3 to 2 o'clock.
• You can also remember that in winter you can bring back everything you brought outside in spring. So it goes back an hour.
• The beer gardens have closed and you now have one hour more time for "hibernation".

Read what you need to know about abolishing summer time in the next practical tip.