Pak Standard Time to be readjusted on Sat night

Updated at: 1548 PST, Saturday, October 31, 2009
Karachi: Pakistan Standard Time would be readjusted on November 1st after six and a half months with striking of 11 and 12 twice by clocks on Saturday night.The government had decided to advance clocks by one hour on April 15th to take maximum benefit of daylight to conserve electricity, which is now being reversed on November 1st. It was decision of Federal Cabinet to advance clocks by one hour every year with advent of summer to overcome energy crisis and use maximum daylight. Pakistan experimented to advance one hour time in 2002 on first Sunday in April at 00:00 to first Sunday in October at 00:00.The government started to implement this again from June 1st, 2008 to August 31st, 2008 to overcome power shortfall.