Time in Pakistan

Pakistan has experimented with Daylight Saving Time (DST) a number of times since 2002, shifting local time from UTC+05:00 to UTC+06:00 during various summer periods, having the effect of making Pakistan counter-intuitively half an hour ahead of India during those times, even though India is generally to its east.

• In 2002, DST was observed from the first Sunday in April (April 7) at 00:00 to the first Sunday in October (October 6) at 00:00. The government cabinet decided to do this "in order to make maximum use of daylight and to save energy."^[1]
• In 2008, DST began on June 1, and was initially set to run through August 31 to meet the annual shortfall of 4 gigawatts of electricity instead of enforcing daily power cuts in households and factories. The government later extended the end date to October 31, including the holy month of Ramadan (which began in early September).^[2][3] DST was originally meant to end on August 31, 2008^[4]
• In 2009, DST was observed from April 15 through October 31.^[5][6]

Daylight saving time is no longer observed in Pakistan.

1. ↑ "Time Zone & Clock Changes in Islamabad, Pakistan". www.timeanddate.com.
2. ↑ "Pakistan goes in for Daylight Saving Time". Rediff.com. Retrieved 2010-06-25.
3. ↑ "DST News - Pakistan Daylight Saving Time news". www.worldtimezone.com.
4. ↑ "Associated Press Of Pakistan ( Pakistan's Premier NEWS Agency ) - Clocks advanced by an hour". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
5. ↑ http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=87774^{[permanent dead link]}
6. ↑ "Associated Press of Pakistan ( Pakistan's Premier NEWS Agency ) - One-hour clocks reversal from Nov 1: Sumsam". Archived from the original on 2012-04-01. Retrieved 2017-05-22.