Don’t forget to move your clock 1 hour ahead
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As part of energy saving measures, government decided to move national standard time 1 hour ahead. So, from June 1 Pakistan Standard Time would be +6GMT. Daylight saving time is not absolutely new concept in Pakistan. It was previously adopted sometimes in 2001 or 2002. Since summers have enough light in the mornings it is quite logical to move the clocks ahead to save the light for domestic use in the evenings. People would have more time to shop and exercise hence DST can have good effect on health and economy. Controversies are also attached with DST. Most of the people in our country may not go (initially) with the national clock since they are not used to this system. This may create problems for some. I was eagerly inquisitive about prayer timings (since prayer timings are attached with sun) of my local mosque but molvi saab doesn’t seem to be interested in it and no announcement has come after any prayer which has left me thinking that how much participation do we make in national concerns which effect individuals. Interestingly there will be no 00:00:00 on June 1; instead the first hour of June 1 will be 01:00:00 On the lighter side DST has lots of jokes associated with it. Here are few
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It is quite funny actually. Last time when we got DST in Pakistan, u’d go asking anyone abt the hour, and u’ll get a funny response: “Asli time, ya naya wala?” (the real time or the new one) lol
It is quite confusing though, but not very difficult to adjust to. And since daytime in summers is quite long here, moving an hour earlier wont be very troubling… we’ll just wake up an hour earlier in the morning, come home from work earlier and have an extra hour of leisure!
Happy DST!
The reason i don’t agree with this one hour system is because why don’t we start office at 8 simply instead of moving the clocks.
Anyways, at least i am not changing my time for the time being
I also got confuse on firt day between asli wala and naya wala (real one and new one). But apart from this fact this is good practice to eccept changes in our life atleast i am very bad to accept any chances in my life…
lolz! Tehreem my suggestion would have facilitated you as you just had to get to your office or college one hour earlier rather then changing our clocks and our minds!
It actually has a psychological effect. Its not just offices and colleges, its markets and all as well… so somebody who’ll get his shop closed at 10.00 would be doing so an hour earlier-the psychological effect of moving into double digits; they’ll know that its still 9.00 (asli mai :P) but still its late!
so its better an hour late and at 8.30!!
Secondly, it seems quite disturbing at first, coz its still not dark at 8.00, which seems unacceptable, but our biological clocks would get adjusted some day!
And yes! going to college at 7.30 is NOT acceptable
Cheers!
About seventy countries in the world use Daylight Saving Time, please rest assured that you will get used to it fairly quickly. I’m thirty years of age and there is DST in my country for a as long as I live, so that made me have to switch like sixty times. Didn’t hurt a bit.
Here we call the Daylight Saving Time ’summer time’ and then ofcourse there is ‘winter time’. That’s more easy than ‘real time’ or ‘the new one’, -grin- Maybe a nice suggestion?
Ya i am sure this is the usual resistance to change, which generally human beings show like me
By the way since i kept my watches on the old time, i missed an important early morning meeting in office because of the confusion inside my mind and hence decided to move them formally else i gonna miss few more!
junaid this is the punch line of DST…they always say … move your clocks 1 hour ahead else you will be late
salam hows everyone ?
i think this DST is not gonna work last time i remember nobody in rural areas change their time
this is really confusing 4 them. As we all know this is a western concept n they r all used to it ..so now let’s see if its gonna work over here or not
Amby (i guess it would be Amber), i think people are gradually accepting it because of media (may be…i don’t know). well, people have varying opinions but i have interaction with lots of people (taxi walas, dukan walas, resturant walas since i live independent) in islamabad and interestingly everybody has advanced his clock. i am visiting a rural area coming weekend; lets see what’s the trend there. cheers!
well Amby is my nick!!! my real name is Umber …yeah so do tell us about the situation over there!!
Welcome and glad to see u back amby. I told u even am till now confused. My mind timings r out. So anyways hope u find the job u were looking for!
Keep visiting us.
The only thing I can say is ‘hehehehehehe’
I left office at 8.30 today….. and was happy coz it was 7.30 according to old setting na!
lols! Thats the thing! Thats why I like DST
waise Qurratulain if u left at 8:30pm then u have to reach earlear too according to old time!!! i does’nt really matter old time ho ya new !!
lol. what I do is that I consider the DST when waking up in the morning or going to university… while considering the old time when coming back! It actually keeps me happy!
yyeeaa it’s gud 4 mental satisfaction lol u r right!!
Dear Friends,
Unfortunately our ppls are very very un cooprative very irresposible and i am very sorry to say majority of our citizens are illitrate and very very selfish aswell.
we just think of ourselfes,none of us gonna secrifice for few minutes because we dont know this change could make there houses bright at nigh and cool at day time
otherwise KESC will continue there load shedding for 8 to 10 hours per day
so friend “NAKHREY CHOROO AND BE MATURE”
your are educated ppls u can understand and you are able to tech others who are unable to understand the effects of this change. God Bless u All
take care
regards
Khurram
Daylight saving is beneficial in those countries where daylight time is large in summer as compare to winter. In case of Pakistan where daylight difference in summer and winter is one hour and fifty miniutes. Moreover, the law and order sitution in Pakistan is very poor. To save the energy the shops and other business activity should closed at 8:30pm. But government failed to do this. Thats why it will not be useful in Pakistan. In addition to this we already did experience of the same in 2002 and there was no saving of energy.