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Philippine Standard Time (PST[1][2] or PhST; [3][4] 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 ...
Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+8), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−5), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−6), and it is also a widely used variant of ACST (Australian Central Standard Time, UTC+9:30). Such designations predate both ISO 8601 and the internet era; in an earlier ...
The ASEAN Common Time (ACT) is a proposal to adopt a standard time for all Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states. [1][2] It was proposed in 1995 by Singapore, and in 2004 and 2015 by Malaysia to make business across countries easier. [3][4] The proposal failed because of opposition in Thailand and Cambodia: [3][5] Thais and ...
UTC−08:00 (Zone 4 or Northwest Zone) – State of Baja California. UTC−07:00 (Zone 3 or Pacific Zone) – States of Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora. UTC−06:00 (Zone 2 or Central Zone) – Most of Mexico. UTC−05:00 (Zone 1 or Southeast Zone) – State of Quintana Roo. Time in Mexico. Chile.
The Indian Standard Time was adopted on 1 January 1906 during the British era with the phasing out of its precursor Madras Time (Railway Time), [2] and after Independence in 1947, the Union government established IST as the official time for the whole country, although Kolkata and Mumbai retained their own local time (known as Calcutta Time and Bombay Time) until 1948 and 1955, respectively. [3]
Much of the archipelago came under Spanish rule, creating the first unified political structure known as the Philippines. Spanish colonial rule saw the introduction of Christianity, the code of law, and the oldest modern university in Asia. The Philippines was ruled under the Mexico-based Viceroyalty of New Spain.
February 1. Luke Edward Wright appointed as Civil Governor (1904–1905) October 19. The Manila Business School was founded and started its operation (later as the Philippine School of Commerce, 1908, then as the Philippine College of Commerce, 1952, and now the Polytechnic University of the Philippines). November 16.
The British first instituted summer time in Egypt in 1940, during the Second World War.The practice was stopped after 1945, but resumed 12 years later, in 1957. [1]Before the revolution in January 2011, the government was planning to take a decision to abolish summer time in 2011 before President Hosni Mubarak's term expires in September 2011.