Romania passes to winter time

On October 28, will be the longest of the year, taking 25 hours.

On the night of Saturday to Sunday, Romania's official time, 4.00 will become 3.00.

By introducing the winter time is intended as long the use of natural sunlight and reducing the use of artificial light.

According to CFR passengers, shifting to East European Time does not alter the timetable in force.

Passenger trains will leave from training stations according to the official summer time until the night of 27/28 October at 4.00, which is 3.00.

On the night of 27/28 October 2012, when 4.00 becomes 3.00, all passenger trains with departure time from training stations after 4.00, will leave according to hours in the timetable in force, respecting the Eastern European Time.

Passenger trains circulating after 4.00, the summer official time , will stop in the set roadmap stations, where they will stay parked until the departure of the timetable in force after the new hour of Eastern European Time and
trains may have to go a short distance until the final station will continue walking up to the destination.

Thus, will be affected by changing the hour a number of 82 trains, of which 40 InterRegio, 40 Regio and two InterCity.

Considering that also the neighboring countries transition from daylight saving time to Eastern European Time is done in the same day on Sunday, October 28, 2012, between the border with the Republic of Moldova, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria and Ukraine, the trains will circulate following the timetables in force.

70 countries from Europe and the USA give the clocks one hour back

Three EU countries (United Kingdom, Ireland and Portugal) will return to the time of GMT, while Spain, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and the Netherlands will fix the clocks at GMT + 1.

In turn, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Latvia and Lithuania will set the clocks to GMT + 2.

Through the introduction of daylight saving time has sought to benefit as much as the natural light of the sun and reducing the use of artificial light.

Benjamin Franklin suggested in 1784 this method, but it has been applied for the first time during World War I, in 1916, a few countries in Europe.

This change of time began to apply progressively in European countries in 1974 after the first oil crisis, in order to save energy consuming -less for lighting.

In Romania the summer schedule was introduced for the first time, without success, in 1931, when it was published in the Official Gazette No. 171 of July 1931, the law for the establishment of the official time in Romania.

Since 1979, daylight saving time was instituted permanently in our country, and until 1997, switching to daylight saving time was on the last Sunday of March, and winter time on the last Sunday of September.

Since 1998, according to Government Ordinance No. 20 of 18 August 1997, the transition to summer time is done on the last Sunday of March, and winter time on the last Sunday of October.

Translated by
Denisse-Meda Bucura
MTTLC, Bucharest University