Convert GST to PKT

PKT is 1 hour ahead of GST. GST is UTC+4 and PKT is UTC+5.

Best time to schedule a meeting

Standard 9–5 working hours overlap for 7 hours: 9:00 AM–4:00 PM GST (10:00 AM–5:00 PM PKT). Schedule meetings inside that window.

GST to PKT conversion table

About GST

Gulf Standard Time (GST) is UTC+4. It is used in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Muscat.

Gulf Standard Time is UTC+4, covering the United Arab Emirates and Oman, and there is no daylight saving anywhere on the Arabian peninsula. The scheduling complication in the region is not the clock but the week: the UAE moved its weekend to Saturday–Sunday in 2022, while Saudi Arabia and several neighbours keep Friday–Saturday, so a Thursday afternoon meeting lands differently across a border that has no time difference at all.

About PKT

Pakistan Standard Time (PKT) is UTC+5. It is used in Pakistan, all year.

Pakistan Standard Time is UTC+5 and does not change through the year — daylight saving has been tried twice and abandoned twice. It sits half an hour behind India, which is the only pair of neighbouring countries in the region separated by a half-hour step rather than a whole one, and a common source of missed calls across that border.

Does this gap change with the seasons?

Neither GST nor PKT shifts with the seasons, so this 1-hour difference holds all year. That is unusual enough to be worth relying on: most cross-continental gaps move twice a year.

This is the reason scheduling systems store an IANA zone such as Region/City rather than an offset or an abbreviation: the zone knows its own rules and the offset does not.

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