Convert PKT to GST

GST is 1 hour behind PKT. PKT is UTC+5 and GST is UTC+4.

Best time to schedule a meeting

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

PKT to GST 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 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.

Does this gap change with the seasons?

Neither PKT nor GST 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.

Frequently asked questions

Other PKT conversions

• PKT to UTC
• PKT to GMT
• 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

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