The people are finding difficulties in adjusting themselves to reversed timing, which was forwarded by one-hour in June this year for using more daylight to save energy in wake of the smearing power crisis in the country.
The decision, as per government assertions, has been instrumental in saving about 500MW electricity, but the public widely believed otherwise, as the measures announced by the government at that time for energy conservation were not implemented in letter and spirit.
For instance, the authorities failed to convince the business community to close down shopping malls and markets by 9pm, rather, all the major markets were seen opened till late night. Moreover, it is difficult to exactly find out whether the public sectors organisations followed the government directives to switch on air conditioning units two hours late and put them off two-hour earlier.
The Federal Minister for Water and Power has admitted recently during a media briefing that plan of day light saving was not fully implemented.
Initially, the day light saving plan was announced for three months only but later it was extended to October 31. As decided by the government, the clock would have been reversed one hour to Pakistan Standard Time (PST) in September instead of November. A survey conducted by Business Recorder revealed that most of the people are critical of government's decision to move the clocks one hour ahead, saying that it did not benefit the masses.
Some passengers were totally confused on Friday about the change of time as it will take them about a week to re-adjust them to the PST. The nation will return to its official standard time (to UTC+5) when the clocks move back by one hour at midnight between October 31 and November 1 in 2008.
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