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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.
UTC−08:00 – Pacific Time zone: the Pacific coast states, the Idaho Panhandle and most of Nevada and Oregon UTC−07:00 – Mountain Time zone: most of Idaho, part of Oregon, and the Mountain states plus western parts of some adjacent states UTC−06:00 – Central Time zone: a large area spanning from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes
Clock Tower was constructed in 1901. [2] The then-Deputy Commissioner initiated its construction, equipping it with large clocks on all four sides for public time-telling. [ 2 ] In 1906, a bell was added to the tower, ringing hourly and audible throughout the city.
The Cabinet of Pakistan had chosen 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 rather than enforcing daily power cuts in households and factories.
A clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more (often four) clock faces. Clock towers can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall. The mechanism inside the tower is known as a turret clock which often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding large bells or chimes ...
The building's Silver Jubilee Clock, a clock tower with a Moorish-style dome, was added in 1935 to commemorate King George V's visit to the region. [5] In January 2007, Karachi celebrated the 75th Anniversary of the building. The building went through a major renovation project which included repairing of the clock tower. [1]
"Zaroori Tha" by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is the most-viewed Pakistani video on YouTube. It is also the first Pakistani video to reach 1 billion views. On the American video-sharing website YouTube, "Tajdar-e-Haram" sung by Atif Aslam became first Pakistani music video to cross 100 million views.
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