Romania passes to summertime

Romania will officially pass, tonight, at summertime.

Clocks will be set in advance with one hour, so 3 a.m. o’clock will become 4 a.m. o’clock, and Sunday will become the shortest day of the year.

According to CFR, the train table will not be modified, but the trains which will circulate then will arrive at destination with small delays.

In this way, the summertime from Romania will be correlated with the one practiced within the member states of the European Union and it applies only for the period between the last Sunday of March and the last Sunday of October.

In Romania, once we passed to summertime, the difference from the universal time (GMT) will be 3 hours.

In the rest of the year, the difference from the Greenwich meridian (GMT) is 2 hours.
Summertime was introduced in Romania for the first time in 1932, informs Agerpres.

Until 1939, it functioned every year, between the first Sunday of April (in 1932-May 22), 12 p.m. o’clock, and the first Sunday of October, 1 a.m. o’clock (local hours). Since 1943, the passing to summertime was suspended.

In 1979, Romania has signed the time zone agreement, and in 1997, through governmental ordinance, the summertime was correlated with the one practiced within EU countries.

By introducing the summertime, the purpose was to beneficiate more from natural light (of Sun) and to reduce the artificial light.

Presently, the summertime is used by 70 countries from the entire world, but not all the countries have the same period for changing it. There are many states that have introduced the summertime only to experiment it.

Also, the equatorial and tropical countries do not apply the summertime because the day is the same for the entire year.

Russia has announced that will renounce, since autumn 2011, to pass to wintertime, after 30 years of using this practice.

Translated by Alexandra-Diana Mircea
MTTLC, Bucharest University