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The Clock tower of Manila City Hall is the icon for synchronizing the time in the whole Philippine archipelago, before an atomic clock was introduced in the country in 2012. The purposes of these Philippine "towering timepieces" are to tell the time and to serve as landmarks .
This is a list representing time zones by country. Countries are ranked by total number of time zones on their territory. Time zones of a country include that of dependent territories (except Antarctic claims). France, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones with 12 (13 including its claim in Antarctica and all other counties ).
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.
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.
CBS News New York also had live shots from the ball drop countdown starting at 10:30 p.m., and our Lonnie Quinn was in Times Square as part of "Nashville's Big Bash" on CBS.
Real-time clocks are electronic devices designed to provide system time, and thereby wall-clock time, to a computer system. (Contrast this with clock signals, designed to provide timing for electronics themselves.)
While yes, the Philippines uses the 24-hour clock in aviation and military situations, in all other situations the 12-hour clock predominates. The 12-hour clock is almost exclusively used in land transport (the PNR timetable you linked to now uses 12-hour notation) and broadcast media, and in casual conversation no one uses the 24-hour clock.
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