Lights on timer advice

[Stephenxiii]

Quick question in the UK our clocks went forward 1 hours yesterday so obviously my lights are going on an hour later and off an hour later

Should I adjust these back to what it was before?
And what time do you have yours set for
Basking and uvb?

 

[The_Four_Toed_Edward]

You might find this thread useful, where the issue was discussed last fall:

Tortoise sleep issues and daylight savings

My tortoises lights are on a 13 hours on, 12 hours of schedule and they shut of at 7 pm. well, since last Thursday my tortoise has been waking up at about half ten in the evening and walking around, once he even ate. He has never woken up without a reason, and the fact that this has been...

tortoiseforum.org

 

[Tom]

Quick question in the UK our clocks went forward 1 hours yesterday so obviously my lights are going on an hour later and off an hour later

Should I adjust these back to what it was before?
And what time do you have yours set for
Basking and uvb?

The little number on your clock has no bearing for the tortoise. I'd leave the timers as they are if that has been working well for you and the tortoise. Actual time has not changed. Just the little numbers on our devices have changed.

 

[Yvonne G]

I don't ever change the time on my timers.

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

Also from the uk, we don’t change ours