
Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...
uses one time zone, which is
Pakistan Standard Time
Pakistan Standard Time (, abbreviated as PKT) is UTC+05:00 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. The time zone is in use during standard time in Asia.
History
Present day Pakistan had been following UTC+05:30 since 1907 (during the Britis ...
(PKT). This is
UTC+05:00 — that is, five hours ahead of
Coordinated Universal Time
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time. It establishes a reference for the current time, forming the basis for civil time and time zones. UTC facilitates international communicat ...
.
History
Notation
Daylight saving time
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.
Daylight saving time in Pakistan has not been observed since 2009.
IANA time zone database
The
IANA time zone database contains one zone for Pakistan in the file
zone.tab, named Asia/Karachi.
References
Geography of Pakistan
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