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Bangladesh Starts Daylight Saving Time

Bangladesh advanced the clock by one hour
Bangladesh advanced the clock by an hour on June 19 at 11:00pm Friday to 12 midnight and starts Daylight Saving Time, for the first time, which is GMT +07:00 hours.

Clocks were advanced by an hour, to start counting Saturday an hour early, to have more daylight during evening hours and to save on the use of electricity.

Bangladesh Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, opened the cover of a replica watch and released a special

commemorative stamp at her official residence, Jamuna, at 10:44pm on Friday, minutes before clocks were to be moved an hour ahead from 11:00pm. The clock in Rajuk Bhaban was advanced to 12 midnight at 11:00pm. Bangladesh Television aired the events live.

The State Minister of Power and Energy Shamsul Haq Tuku said that the government estimates 250 megawatts of power per day can be saved by having more daylight hours in the evening so that people can avoid using electricity.

The Prime Minister has urged people to adjust to Daylight Saving Time being introduced to make the maximum use of limited energy resources.

In compliance to this urge Association for the welfare of the Disabled People AWDP-Bangladesh stretched its efforts to help others to adjust their PC time by installing small software from Microsoft. An optional update is available to update the Daylight Saving Time for Bangladesh for the year 2009 for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 based computers.

This update is available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972423

After installing this software your computer will automatically adjust its time (advances by one hour and will back to the original time as soon as DST for Bangladesh ends.

Bangladesh’s time zone during the non-daylight saving period is known as Bangladesh Time (BDT), which has a time offset of UTC+6 hours. This time zone applies to the whole country and will shift to UTC+7 hours when DST occurs at midnight between June 19 and 20, 2009.

Time-related information on Dhaka, Bangladesh, can be found in the World Clock. Time-related information on other cities in Bangladesh can be found in the World Clock – long list. Also, visit Commonly reported problems with the World Clock if the chosen city’s correct time is not shown or to understand more about Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and its difference from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).