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 till 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.