Pakistan Standard Time (PST) is the time zone for Pakistan. It is 5 hours ahead of GMT/UTC (UTC+5). For alternate meanings of GMT, see GMT (disambiguation). ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ... UTC +5 is the timezone for : Pakistan Standard Time in Pakistan. ...

Standard Time Zones of the World

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Daylight Savings Time

In 2002 it was reported by The News International of Pakistan (and confirmed by the Pakistan Government Tourist Bureau) that "In order to make maximum use of daylight and to save energy, the cabinet decided to adopt the daylight saving scheme. It has been decided to advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first Saturday and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on 15th October each year. This system has been adopted for one year only on experimental basis." The News International (ISSN 1563-9479) is the largest English language newspaper in Pakistan, published simultaneously from Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore. ...

In 2003 it is reported that DST ends at the end of the first Saturday in October at 23:00 PST because it was an easy date and the day after it was a Sunday. This system has been abolished and it has not used DST since then.

Other places using UTC+5

• Kazakhstan (Western)
• Maldives
• Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan
• Uzbekistan
• West Asia Standard Time.
• Yekaterinburg Time in Russia
• Generic UTC+5 in other countries.

See Also

• Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
• Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

It has been suggested that leap second be merged into this article or section. ... Time zones of Europe: Dark colours indicate countries observing daylight saving Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is a historical term, originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Greenwich in London. ...

References

• greenwichmeantime.com - Pakistan Standard Time

External links

• Find cities currently in UTC+5