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Time offset from GMT [1] Notes; 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)
The Clock Tower, Sialkot (Urdu: سیالکوٹ گھنٹہ گھر) is a clock tower situated in Saddar Bazar, Sialkot Cantonment, Pakistan. It was built in 1922. [1] [2]
Pakistan Standard Time (Urdu: پاکستان معیاری وقت, 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
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 ...
Merewether Clock Tower or Merewether Tower (Urdu: میری ویدر ٹاور) [2] is a neo-Gothic clocktower built during the Victorian era in Karachi, Pakistan. [3] The tower is a landmark in central Karachi, and is at the termini of two of the most important roads in central Karachi: Muhammad Ali Jinnah Road and I. I. Chundrigar Road.
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.
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]