Convert PKT to GMT

GMT is 5 hours behind PKT. PKT is UTC+5 and GMT is UTC+0.

Best time to schedule a meeting

Standard 9–5 working hours overlap for 3 hours: 2:00 PM–5:00 PM PKT (9:00 AM–12:00 PM GMT). Schedule meetings inside that window.

PKT to GMT 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 GMT

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is UTC+0. It is used in the UK and Ireland in winter, Portugal, Iceland and much of West Africa.

The trap with GMT is that the United Kingdom is not on it for most of the year. From late March to late October the UK runs BST, UTC+1, so a meeting agreed "10am GMT" with a London colleague in July is an hour out unless both parties meant the abbreviation literally. Broadcasters and airlines avoid the ambiguity by saying UTC. GMT itself is fixed at UTC+0 and does not shift; it is the UK's clocks that move away from it and back.

Does this gap change with the seasons?

This gap is seasonal. The abbreviations themselves are fixed offsets, but the region on GMT switches to BST (UTC+1) from late March to late October. So the 5-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 EST
• PKT to EDT
• 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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