How does Daylight Saving Time work in Paraguay?

11/29/2016 8:53:06 AM

From Wikipedia:

Paraguay observes DST under decree 1867 of March 5, 2004. DST ends on
the second Sunday of March and starts on the first Sunday of October.

In 2007, DST started on October 15, 2006 and ended on March 11, 2007.

In 2010, Paraguay changed its own DST rules because of the energy
crisis, ending DST on the second Sunday in April, a month later than
previous years. The start date remains unchanged.

which is clearly somewhat deficient as it does not report (from timeanddate.com):

Published 7-Mar-2013

Paraguay ends Daylight Saving Time (DST) at midnight between Saturday,
March 23 and Sunday, March 24, 2013. The switch comes 3 weeks earlier
than planned. The South American country was originally scheduled to
switch back on Sunday, April 14.

Clocks in Paraguay will be turned back by 1 hour from midnight to
11:00 pm (23:00) local time.

With the reason given by the same source as:

School children’s safety

The change of the DST schedule was announced today, March 7, 2013, by
the president of the National Electricity Administration (ANDE),
Carlos Heisele. According to a statement issued by ANDE, the date
change is designed to ensure the safety of school children who usually
have to make their way to school in the dark during the last weeks of
the DST period.

Paraguay usually begins observing DST on the first Sunday in October
and switches back to standard time on the second Sunday in April.

The same site keeps a very comprehensive list of updates but the 2013 entry for Paraguay seems to be its most recent at present.

The Decree mentioned in a Comment by the OP Decreto No 1864 of 2014 supersedes 1867 of 5 March 2004 (the one mentioned by Wikipedia), 3958 of 17 February 2010 (presumably in connection with the energy crisis) and 10780 of 15 March 2013 (presumably the one shown published 7-Mar-2013 by timeanddate.com). Wording includes (my translation): 

Clocks go back one hour on the fourth Sunday in March each year and forward one hour  
on the first Sunday of October each year, throughout Paraguay.

Somewhat strangely, no time for the time change is mentioned but a separate link provided by the OP suggests that the convention is to adjust once midnight is reached (for the first time) and that IATA say transitions occur at 00:00.

The Decree gives the reason as being to save electricity.

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