Sleep disorders can occur during the first weeks of the switch to summer time. Beside fatigue, mild depression, lack of appetite and headaches can appear. Health specialists say such symptoms are normal, IPN reports.

According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection, if harsher pain or complications of chronic diseases appear in the period, the person should immediately see a doctor. It is recommended moving more, sleeping healthily and eating products rich in vitamins and minerals.

Moldova switches to summer time or daylight saving time on the night of March 31. Clocks are set one hour forward and 2am will become 3am. The official hour is changed two times a year, on the last Sunday of March and on the last Sunday of October.

Moldova could renounce this practice. The Government announced it will adopt the same position as the EU member states. On March 26 this year, MEPs voted to scrap daylight saving time across the EU in 20121 by a majority of votes.