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Philippine Standard Time (PST or PhST; Filipino: Pamantayang Oras ng Pilipinas), also known as Philippine Time (PHT), [citation needed] is the official name for the time zone used in the Philippines. The country only uses a single time zone, at an offset of UTC+08:00 , but has used daylight saving time for brief periods in the 20th century ...
Current time. 14:06, 3 May 2024 EST [ refresh] 15:06, 3 May 2024 EDT [ refresh] Observance of DST. DST is observed in parts of this time zone. The Eastern Time Zone ( ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico . Places that use:
Fort Santiago ( Spanish: Fuerte de Santiago; Filipino: Kutà ng Santiago ), built in 1571, is a citadel built by Spanish navigator and governor Miguel López de Legazpi for the newly established city of Manila in the Philippines. The defense fortress is located in Intramuros, the walled city of Manila. The fort is one of the most important ...
Metropolitan Manila (Filipino: Kalakhang Maynila), commonly shortened to Metro Manila and formally the National Capital Region (NCR; Filipino: Pambansang Punong Rehiyon), is the capital region and largest metropolitan area of the Philippines. Located on the eastern shore of Manila Bay, the region lies between the Central Luzon and Calabarzon ...
Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA / ˈ n aɪ ə / NA-YAH, locally / n ɑː. ˈ iː. j ə / NA-ee-YAH; Tagalog pronunciation:; Filipino: Paliparang Pandaigdig ng Ninoy Aquino; (IATA: MNL, ICAO: RPLL)), also known as Manila International Airport (MIA), is the main international airport serving Metro Manila in the Philippines.
The Proclamation of Independence on June 12, 1898, as depicted on the back of the Philippine five peso bill. Proclamation of Philippine Independence Historical Markers at the Aguinaldo Shrine in Kawit, Cavite. Independence was proclaimed on June 12, 1898, between four and five in the afternoon in Cavite at the ancestral home of General Emilio ...
Eastern Telecommunications Philippines, Inc. (ETPI), doing business as Eastern Communications, is the first telecommunications company in the Philippines under Vega Telecom. [1] [2] [3] Founded in 1878 during the final years of the Spanish colonial era, it was the first company to provide telegraphic services.
The Manila Trench near western Luzon and Mindoro, the Philippine Trench in the east, and the Philippine Mobile Belt. The Manila Trench is an oceanic trench in the Pacific Ocean, located west of the islands of Luzon and Mindoro in the Philippines. The trench reaches a depth of about 5,400 metres (17,700 ft), [8] in contrast with the average ...