Time in Pakistan

File:Pakistan_Time_Zone.jpg (numbers are hours ahead of UTC)]]Pakistan uses one time zone, which is Pakistan Standard Time (PKT). This is UTC+05:00 — that is, five hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.

History

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! Period in use

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Prior until 1907

| UTC+04:28:12

| Karachi Time (KART)

1907–1951

| UTC+05:30

| Indian Standard Time (IST)

1951–1971

| UTC+05:00 in West Pakistan
UTC+06:00 in East Pakistan (today Bangladesh)

| Karachi Time (KART)
Dacca Time (DACT)

1971–present

| UTC+05:00 in Pakistan

| Pakistan Standard Time (PKT)

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

Category:Geography of Pakistan