ISLAMABAD Clocks across the country were moved back by one hour on Saturday midnight.
The government had introduced daylight saving on April 15 to help overcome the electricity shortfall which had touched 4,000 megawatts during summer.
According to rough estimates provided by the ministry of water and power, about 250 megawatts of power were conserved daily thanks to the decision to advance the Pakistan Standard Time (PST) by an hour. A ministry official said that one megawatt cost one million dollars.
APP adds The decision to reverse clocks by an hour will provide relief to students and office-goers. At the peak of summer season, advancing of clocks helps conserve electricity as well as preventing office-goers, who usually start their duty at 9am, from intense heat. The reversal of clocks in winter will provide them an extra hour in the morning.
After moving back clocks by an hour, the sun will rise in Islamabad at 6.22am instead of 7.23 am, and will set at 5.20pm instead of 6.20pm.
The cabinet had decided to advance clocks by one hour every year with the advent of summer to overcome the energy crisis and use maximum daylight. The country had first experimented with the DST in 2002.
Daylight Saving Time (DST) is used almost in all European countries and clocks are forwarded at the advent of spring and brought back at the start of autumn.
