An extra hour of daylight will be with us when the clocks are moved forward on Sunday at 2am.

Nowadays, while most digital devices automatically adjust for daylight saving, spare a thought for horologist Dominic Tancredi who ponders the thought of preparing to manually adjust hundreds of clocks and watches at this time of the year.

The owner of Dom's Watch and Clock Repair Service, Mr Tancredi is one of a few who perform their roles in one of the world's most scarce trades.

"It's really only the ones I've repaired that I'll wind forward now," Mr Tancredi said.

"If I had to adjust every one it would take me a while to get through them all."

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Surrounded by the ticking and faces of hundreds of timepieces for more than three decades in Wagga's South Town Walk arcade, it might be surprising to hear Mr Tancredi say he almost didn't realise how quickly 32 years of being in business would tick over.

Once the font of knowledge for the bi-annual occurrence of moving time ahead or backwards for one hour, Mr Tancredi is called on much less to inform people of the exact date when the event takes place.

"People used to ask me when it starts but they don't as often now," he said.

"Most people just google it now to find out exactly when daylight saving starts and finishes.

"But a lot of my elderly customers, they'll be in.

"They come in and get me to put their watches to the right time when it's time for daylight saving."

Although many treat the event of time marching on as calamitous, Mr Tancredi welcomes its onset.

"I look forward to it and don't mind it at all," he said.

"I can get out at home in the sun a bit later and I can go for nine holes of golf and do lots of things with the extra daylight."

Daylight saving will end in New South Wales on April 3, 2022.

The practice of setting timepieces forward one hour from standard time during summer months and back again in the autumn, to make better use of natural daylight, is reported to have first been used in 1908 in Thunder Bay, Canada, however, Germany is believed to be the first place to have introduced it on a national level in April 1916.

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