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This year, the change happens a day earlier, meaning lighter mornings but darker evenings return. In the UK and EU, clocks are typically set back at 2am on the final Sunday of October. Despite a 2019 EU Parliament vote to end seasonal changes, no progress has been made, so they will continue.
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