HOTFIX: Paraguay Shortens 2012-13 DST

[Nakul_Bhagat]

First published on TECHNET on Mar 20, 2013

The government of Paraguay has Shortened Daylight Saving Time for 2012-13 [ Official Decree ]. DST for Paraguay now ends on March 23, 2013.

A hotfix for Windows has been released to address this change. You can find details of the hotfix and download it here [ KB2829069 ].
Hotfixes are available for support versions of Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 platforms.

For more information on the impact of the change (including details on configuring Outlook), see the Microsoft CTS LatAm team's blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/latam/archive/2013/03/13/paraguay-dst-2013-fallback.aspx

[Hugo_Almada]

Excellent information Nakul_Bhagat, just to add to the information that is under study the Project of Law official summer hours throughout the year, that is to say that the schedule will no longer be changed 2 times a year as they were doing. Now they want to leave daylight saving time as official. 

You can see the official information in the following link