British Summer Time Now

BST time (UTC/GMT+01:00):

British Summer Time

the UK, the Daylight Saving (DST) period is is known as British Summer Time or BST for short.During British Summer Time (BST), civil time in the United Kingdom is advanced one hour forward of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) (in effect, changing the time zone from UTC+00:00 to UTC+01:00), so that mornings have one hour less daylight, and evenings one hour more.

When BST starts, the UK moves its clocks forward from GMT by one hour, so BST= GMT+1.

The UK is the short name for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Great Britain consists of England, Wales and Scotland.Since 1996 all clocks in the European Union have changed on same dates and at the same time, 1:00 am GMT. UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is in a transition period till the end of 2020. There have been no announcements so far about post-EU Daylight Saving Time (DST) rules.