Pakistan

[Jesper Nørgaard]

I found a government page with the same information, possibly the origin of it, on

http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/news/app/app06_dec.htm

There is more information on other issues, but the wording of the DST bit is
the same. On a personal note they are really trying to test the limit of timezone
handling software, choosing First Saturday and First Sunday of a month as a
parameter,  probably not realizing that these can be mutually exclusive, maby
meaning that if First Sunday is first day of month, it will not be counted (as in 2007).
Choosing fixed date 15.th. of October as DST end date, when the start date is
parameterized to a weekend, is highly obscure too - but not difficult to handle.

Regards,

Jesper Nørgaard Welen
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From: 	Paul Eggert[SMTP:eggert at twinsun.com]
Sent: 	Viernes 15 de Marzo de 2002 10:19
To: 	rmcdow at enteles.com
Cc: 	tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov
Subject: 	Re: Pakistan

> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:27:18 -0800
> From: Rives McDow <rmcdow at enteles.com>

>     I have been advised that Pakistan has decided to adopt dst on a TRIAL
> basis for one year, starting 00:01 local time on April 7, 2002 and ending at
> 00:01 local time  October 6, 2002.  This is what I was told, but I believe
> that the actual time of change may be 00:00; the 00:01 was to make it clear
> which day it was on.

Thanks for the heads-up.  I looked around and found these copies of
what appears to be essentially the same source:

http://www.dawn.com/2001/12/06/top4.htm
http://www.hclinfinet.com/2001/DEC/WEEK2/7/PAKInsideNN2.jsp
http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/dec2001-daily/06-12-2001/main/main5.htm

(dated 2001-12-06) which says that the Cabinet adopted a scheme "to
advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first Saturday
and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on 15th
October each year".  This agrees with your April 7 at 00:00, but
disagrees about the October transition, and makes it sound like it's
not on a trial basis.

Also, the "between the first Saturday and Sunday of April" phrase, if
taken literally, means that the transition takes place at 00:00 on the
first Sunday on or after April 2, not the more-usual April 1.  The
first year that this would make a difference is 2007.

For what it's worth, Shanks says that the last transition from DST in
what is now Pakistan also occurred at 00:00 on October 15.  The year
was 1945.