SPOILER alert - there’s a Coldplay connection to what’s happening to us all on Sunday. Think Clocks, one of the bands popular songs.

In case it’s passed you by, here’s a reminder that the clocks change this weekend.

There’s bound to be the usual confusion in many households, with arguments about whether that means an hour more or an hour less in bed.

To anyone in doubt, thanks to the Americans there’s an easy way to remember - it’s Spring forward, Fall (Autumn) back.

Out goes British Summer Time (BST) and in comes Greenwich Mean Time at what would have been 2am on Sunday.

As a result, we get two 1ams and we can snuggle up for an extra hour under the sheets before getting up for church or the supermarket shop.

Unless, that is, you’re rostered to work on Saturday night or early on Sunday, in which case you’ll probably have an extra hour on duty.

For the rest of us, there’ll be 25 hours to fill on Sunday.

The switch will herald in lighter mornings and darker evenings.

On the last Sunday of next March, we’ll revert to BST.

Benjamin Franklin is said to be the first person to moot changing the clocks twice a year back in 1784.

The proposal lay hibernated for over a century until William Willett - the great-great-grandfather of Coldplay front man Chris Martin - called for clocks to be brought forward in the summer, apparently so he’d have more time on the golf course.

Willett’s campaign failed to convince Parliament.

But MPs took notice after the German army turned their clocks forward at the height of the First World War in the spring of 1916 to conserve energy.

The UK and other European countries soon followed.

Not everyone agrees that changing the clocks in Spring and Autumn is a good idea.

While supporters argue that lighter mornings make our roads safer, opponents believe it can cause health problems and some industries such as farming say they need more daylight to work in.

I recall as a schoolboy the country experimenting with what was known as British Standard Time.

From 1968 until 1971, we remained on British Summer Time throughout the year, with no clock changing.

It meant getting up in the dark for school in autumn and winter. But the big advantage was being able to play football, rather than golf, in the park until later.