Update available for Brazil, Fiji and Jordan time zones

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This time zone update for Windows Operating Systems has been published on Microsoft Download Center. It contains the following changes:

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  Jordan:
  Jordan announced last year that, on December 20, 2013, it would no longer use the daylight saving time (DST) schedule that it observed in 2012 and 2013. Beginning in 2014, the DST period in Jordan will being at 00:00:00.000 on Friday that follows the last Thursday of March, and it will end at 01:00:00.000 on the last Friday of October.

  
  


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  Brazil:
  Brazil made a time zone change effective November 10, 2013 that restores the state of Acre (capital, Rio Branco) to S.A. Pacific Standard Time (UTC-05:00). More specifically, this update sets the display name of the S.A. Pacific Standard time zone to "(UTC-05:00) Bogota, Lima, Quito, Rio Branco.".

  
  


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  Fiji:
  Fiji announced that the country's DST schedule for this year ends at 02:00:00:000 on January 19.

  
  

For more information, or to download this update, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2922717.