The Cabinet of Ministers intends to cancel the Decision of the Council of Ministers of the Moldovan SSR No. 132/1990, which regulated the order of time calculation on the territory of the Republic, and at the same time to introduce new, European rules, namely – to transfer the provisions of the EU Directive of the year on the transition to summer time.
Under the current regulatory framework, each transition to summer or winter time requires a separate government decision, which sometimes leads to confusion for citizens, businesses and transportation. The Cabinet of Ministers plans to consolidate once and for all the order of clock changeover with a single decision to make it predictable, official and permanent.
Moldova’s official time corresponds to UTC+2 – two hours more than the Universal Coordinated Time. The decree fixes fixed dates for the translation of the clocks. The start of daylight saving time is the last Sunday of March and the clocks are moved from 3:00 to 4:00. The return to standard time is the last Sunday in October, the clocks are moved from 4:00 to 3:00.
For citizens from a practical point of view nothing changes – they will still change their clocks twice a year, but now they will know exactly when to do it. And for this, neither the population nor businesses will have to wait for an official government decision.
The decision takes into account the experience of EU countries. In Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania, the time also changes twice a year.
