Don’t forget to reset your clocks tonight

Moldova will make the annual switch to summer time at 2 am, this Sunday, when clocks will move forward one hour. The official hour of Moldova switches from GMT+2 to GMT+3. Moldova switches to summer time concurrently with the EU member states as recommended by the UN Economic Commission for Europe. The summer time system has the aim to make better use of sunlight, so the main human activities to be performed as much as possible during daylight hours. Specialists estimated that this way economies save money on electric energy. The summer time is used until the last Sunday of October. Germans, followed by Britons, were the first to introduce the summer time system in the same year, in 1916. Nowadays, 70 countries switch to summer time. This switch system is not used in equatorial countries and countries from the Tropic of Capricorn. Japan and China do not switch to summer time too. Some doctors say this shift, in combination with the spring asthenia, is responsible for biorhythm disturbances, which lead to fatigue and irritability. In Europe thousands of people are usually hospitalized during the switch to summer time for stress treatment. The worst affected are the elderly; children also tend to be more agitated than usually. The incidence of suicide cases rises by 5 percent in this period and there is also a higher risk of cardiovascular accidents. Family doctor Olga Severin has told Info-Prim Neo that our organisms need at lest one month to completely adjust to summer time. Particularly sensitive people are advised to avoid strenuous efforts in the first two or three weeks after the switch, go to bed earlier, avoid overindulging in alcohol and food.