We thought we'd just tell you now to save you from having that same conversation a couple weeks from now.
Its the same conversation every October...
Someone asks you, ''when do the clocks go back...?''
You say ''Hmmm...'' and stroke your chin, pretending like you have the fainest clue when in reality you have no idea.
''Don't know, I'll google it,'' you resourcefully say as you proceed to google the answer for your friend who could've just done the same.
To avoid you having to have this exact conversation in a couple of weeks time, we thought we'd just tell you the answer now...
So you can start looking forward to that glorious extra hour's sleep.
Which you'll get to enjoy on: October 28th! The day the clocks in Ireland will go backwards one hour.
The official date that will be the start of lighter mornings and darker evenings.
Criticism
In recent years people have criticised the necessity of daylight saving practice.
Daylight savings was originally introduced at the end of WW1 to give farmers an extra hour of daylight to work in.
However many argue that in the modern age there is no need for an extra hour of morning sunlight.
People’s sleep schedules are interrupted and some studies have shown that this corresponds to increased car accidents as drivers are thrown off by the disrupted sleep schedule and difference in light levels.
An EU commission into Daylight savings has revealed that 84 per cent of people are in favour of scrapping it all together.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker recently announced that he would bring forward proposals to scrap daylight saving time (DLT) across the EU.
It's expected DLT will be scrapped in the EU all together in 2021.
