Daylight saving time started at 2 am, with the hands of the clocks moved forward by 60 minutes.
It will be in effect until 3 am on 31 October.
Summer time is the convention of moving the clocks of a state forward one hour to make the most of the sun's irradiation during the summer period, thus allowing energy savings.
In Italy this measure has been applied since 1916, definitively adopted as a law in 1965 and adapted to EU directive in 2010.
