Don't forget to change your clocks for daylight saving tonight

It’s that time of year again, with New Zealanders set to lose an hour of sleep tonight as <a href="https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/09/21/daylight-saving-is-back-why-do-we-still-change-the-clocks/">daylight saving begins</a> for another year. Clocks will move forward by one hour at 2am on Sunday, September 27, becoming 3am. While that means one less hour in bed, the change brings more daylight into the evenings as the country heads towards summer. A handy way to remember which direction the clocks move is “spring forward, fall back”. Daylight saving begins at 2am on the last Sunday of September each year, when the clocks move forward by an hour to give us more evening light. It ends each year at 3am on the first Sunday of April when the clocks move back an hour, giving New Zealand 27 weeks of daylight saving.