Moldova to switch to summer time on 31 March

10:52 | 30.03.2019 Category: Official

Chisinau, 30 March /MOLDPRES/ - Moldova will switch to the summer time on the night of 30 March to 31 March. The clocks will be set one hour forward. Thus, 2 am will become 3 am on the night of the last Sunday of March, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.

The switch to the summer time is made in line with the proposal by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and concomitantly with the European Union member states.

The official time is changed twice a year, on the last Sunday of March and on the last Sunday of October.

For the first time ever, the switch to the summer time was enforced in New Zealand in 1895. Moldova took over this practice in 1979, in order to optimally use the natural light and reduce the artificial illumination.

Moldova will give up the change of the time starting from 2021. And this after the cabinet informed that it would adopt the same position as the European Union countries.

On 26 March 2019, the European MPs voted, by large majority, for the abolition of the seasonal changes of the time in the European Union in 2021.

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