Convert PKT to EDT

EDT is 9 hours behind PKT. PKT is UTC+5 and EDT is UTC−4.

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Standard 9–5 working hours do not overlap at all between PKT and EDT. Someone has to take an early or late call — or use asynchronous communication instead.

PKT to EDT conversion table

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.

About EDT

Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) is UTC−4. It is used in New York, Toronto, Miami and Atlanta from March to November.

Eastern Daylight Time is UTC−4, the summer clock for New York, Toronto, Miami and Atlanta, running from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November. Those dates are US law and do not match Europe's, which changes on the last Sundays of March and October — so for two weeks in March and one in late October the gap between New York and London is an hour different from its usual five.

Does this gap change with the seasons?

This gap is seasonal. The abbreviations themselves are fixed offsets, but the region on EDT switches to EST (UTC−5) from November to March. So the 9-hour figure on this page is correct for the part of the year when both places are actually on these abbreviations, and changes by an hour outside it.

PKT does not shift, so the whole change comes from one side. A recurring meeting fixed in PKT will appear to move by an hour for everyone on the other side, twice a year, without anyone changing anything.

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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Other PKT conversions

• PKT to UTC
• PKT to GMT
• PKT to EST
• PKT to CST
• PKT to CDT
• PKT to MST
• PKT to MDT
• PKT to PST
• PKT to PDT
• PKT to AKST
• PKT to HST
• PKT to BRT
• PKT to BST
• PKT to CET
• PKT to CEST
• PKT to EET

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