New 2013 fall back date for Paraguay

The President of Paraguay's National Electricity Administration (ANDE), Carlos Heisele, has announced a change to this autumn's clock change. Instead of 14 April, the clocks will go back three weeks earlier, at midnight between Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 March 2013.^[1]

At midnight the clocks go back one hour, to 23:00 on Saturday 23 March 2013.

The decision was made at a meeting between President Federico Franco and the head of ANDE at Mburuvichá Róga, the President's official residence.

The reason is to spare school children from walking to school in the morning darkness.

It is still open whether the date of the spring change will move as well.

Note that Paraguay is in the southern hemisphere, so it is on daylight saving time when the USA and Europe are on standard time, and the other way round.

Correction, 26 October 2026: The picture's caption said "Iguazu Falls, Paraguay". The falls are on the border of Argentina and Brazil, near Paraguay.^[2]

Update, 26 October 2026: The new date stayed: until 2024, Paraguay went back to standard time on the fourth Sunday of March and forward on the first Sunday of October.^[1] After the change on 6 October 2024, Paraguay stopped changing its clocks and now keeps UTC-3 all year.^[3]