The clocks went back an hour this morning as summer time ended.
The mostly unpopular change in the clocks - for many the start of the winter season - has now even forced UK campaigners to argue that daylight savings must be scrapped to save lives.
In the UK, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents warns that a more pressing issue now is the number of road traffic accidents that daylight savings appears to cause, citing an annual spike in incidents after late October.
In 2011, Tory MP Rebecca Harris floated a bill calling for year-round daylight savings but it failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session and was dropped.