Convert PKT to SAST

SAST is 3 hours behind PKT. PKT is UTC+5 and SAST is UTC+2.

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

PKT to SAST 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 SAST

South Africa Standard Time (SAST) is UTC+2. It is used in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini.

South Africa Standard Time is UTC+2 with no daylight saving, unchanged since 1903 apart from two wartime years. The whole country keeps it, and so do Lesotho and Eswatini. Against the UK it is two hours ahead in winter and one in summer, which is the shift that catches London–Johannesburg standing calls every March and October.

Does this gap change with the seasons?

Neither PKT nor SAST shifts with the seasons, so this 3-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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