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The Philippines uses the 12-hour clock format in most oral or written communication, whether formal or informal. A colon ( : ) is used to separate the hour from the minutes (12 : 30 p.m.). The use of the 24-hour clock is usually restricted in use among airports, the military , police , and other technical purposes.
Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+08:00), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−05:00), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00), 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 ...
[6] [7] At the time, local mean time was used to set clocks, meaning that every place used its own local time based on its longitude because the time was measured by locally observing the Sun. Philippine Standard Time was instituted through Batas Pambansa Blg. 8 (that defined the metric system ), approved on December 2, 1978, and implemented on ...
A magnitude 7,0 earthquake hit northern Philippines at 08:43hr (UTC +8) 27 July 2022, severely affecting the provinces of Abra, Benguet, Ilocos Sur, Pangasinan, Mountain Province, Nueva Vizcaya. The epicenter was at 17km depth of focus resulting in a shallow earthquake of intensity 7 (very devastating) and intensity 6 (devastating) in 4 areas ...
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In traditional American usage, dates are written in the month–day–year order (e.g. February 27, 2025) with a comma before and after the year if it is not at the end of a sentence [2] and time in 12-hour notation (7:54 am). International date and time formats typically follow the ISO 8601 format (2025-02-27) for all-numeric dates, [3] write ...
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