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Philippine Standard Time (PST or PhST; Filipino: Pamantayang Oras ng Pilipinas), also known as Philippine Time (PHT), 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.
February 14 - TV Patrol Weekend celebrated its 20th anniversary on Philippine television. February 15. Cablelink launched seven channels owned by Creative Programs, Inc. (a subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corporation) on their line-up: ANC, Cinema One, Cine Mo!, Jeepney TV, Metro Channel, Myx and TeleRadyo Serbisyo.
The following date format variations are less commonly used: In Tagalog and Filipino, however, the day-month-year notation is the format as adapted from the Spanish. The ordinal prefix ika is applied on the day first as in ika-4 ng Enero, 2021 (English: 4th of January 2021 ). The month-day-year format is also used, albeit rarely and more for ...
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) initially reported a magnitude 6.5 earthquake striking at 8:03 am Philippine Standard Time (PST) in Cataingan, Masbate. The report was later revised to a magnitude 6.6 earthquake. The earthquake was also felt in several parts of Luzon and the Visayas.
The time 8:45 may be spoken as "eight forty-five" or "(a) quarter to nine". In older English, it was common for the number 25 to be expressed as "five-and-twenty". In this way the time 8:35 may be phrased as "five-and-twenty to 9", although this styling fell out of fashion in the later part of the 1900s and is now rarely used.
UTC+08:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +08:00. With an estimated population of 1.708 billion living within the time zone, roughly 21% of the world population, it is the most populous time zone in the world, as well as a possible candidate for ASEAN Common Time . This time zone is used in all predominantly Chinese-speaking ...
Earth Hour is a worldwide movement organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The event is held annually, encouraging the individuals, communities, and businesses to give an hour for Earth, and additionally marked by landmarks and businesses switching off non-essential electric lights, for one hour from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., usually on the last Saturday of March, as a symbol of commitment to the ...
March 8, 1995. ( 1995-03-08) –. present. ( present) The PCSO Lottery Draw is the television program that broadcasts the drawing of the nationally- franchised Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) lotto games in the Philippines. It has been aired daily (except on Christmas Day, New Year's Day, National Election Day, and during the ...