Time in the Philippines

World time conversion based on the Philippine Standard Time (click to enlarge).

Countries that uses the UTC+08:00 time zone is shaded in yellow.

Philippine Standard Time (Filipino: Pamantayang Oras ng Pilipinas, abbreviated PST), also known as Philippine Time (abbreviated PHT), is the official name for the time in the Philippines. The country only use one time zone, the UTC+08:00 time zone. The country used the daylight saving time for a short period of time and was discontinued after the trial.

Geographic details

Geographically, the Philippines lies within 116°40′ and 126°34′ east of the Prime Meridian, and as such is physically located within the UTC+08:00 time zone. The Philippine Standard Time is maintained by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, or PAGASA. The Philippines shares the same timezone with Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, most parts of China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei, central Indonesia and Western Australia.

History

The Philippine Time was instituted through Batas Pambansa Blg. 8, the law defining the metric system, which was approved on December 2, 1978 and implemented on January 1, 1983. The Philippines is one of the very few countries to officially and almost exclusively use the 12-hour time system in reference to non-military situations.

Daylight saving time in the Philippines

Due to frequent power outages, daylight saving time was instituted in the 1990s. As national power supplies and transmission systems recovered, daylight saving time was discontinued, and is presently defunct.

Juan Time

Television and radio stations in the Philippines often tell the time, but something is objectionable. Last September 2011, the Department of Science and Technology or DOST, proposed to synchronize the time in the archipelago to avoid the tardiness of the Filipinos in their own respective businesses. So, PAGASA installed a rubidium atomic clock, a GPS receiver, a time interval counter, distribution amplifier, and a computer, to help calculate the time difference with every satellite within its antenna’s field of view.

See also

• Daylight saving time in the Philippines

External links

• http://kidlat.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/ourtime.shtml
• http://www.worldtimezone.com/wtz-names/wtz-pht.html
• http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=145
• http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/DateTime-TimeZone/DateTime/TimeZone/Asia/Manila.pm.html