Paraguay observes
UTC−03:00 year-round. Until 2024, it observed
UTC−04:00 for standard time (PYT) and UTC−03:00 for
daylight saving time
Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight savings time, daylight time (Daylight saving time in the United States, United States and Daylight saving time in Canada, Canada), or summer time (British Summer Time, United Kingdom, ...
/ summer time (PYST).
Daylight saving time
Paraguay used to observe DST under decree 1867 of March 5, 2004. DST ended on the third Sunday of March and started on the first Sunday of October. 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. In 2013 Paraguay changed the ending date of daylight saving to the fourth Sunday in March. The starting date remains unchanged.
On 5 August 2020, an initiative arose to keep the daylight saving time as the official year-round time, with the intention to align Paraguay with neighbors Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Legislative efforts to achieve this continued unsuccessfully until a law was passed by the
Congress of Paraguay
Paraguay's bicameral Congress ''(Congreso)'' consists of a 45-member Senate and an
80-member Chamber of Deputies. It serves as the legislative branch of the Paraguayan state.
Both chambers of Congress are elected concurrently with the presid ...
in September 2024.
See also
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Daylight saving time by country
Daylight saving time (DST), also known as summer time, is the practice of advancing clocks during part of the year, typically by one hour around spring and summer, so that daylight ends at a later time of the day. , DST is observed in most of ...
References
Geography of Paraguay
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