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Philippine Daylight Saving Time: July 1, 1954 – March 21, 1978 GMT/UTC+08:00: Philippine Standard Time: March 22, 1978 – September 20, 1978 UTC+09:00: Philippine Daylight Saving Time: September 21, 1978 – May 20, 1990 UTC+08:00: Philippine Standard Time: May 21, 1990 – July 28, 1990 UTC+09:00: Philippine Daylight Saving Time: July 29 ...
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.
According to the 2020 Philippine census, Manila has a population of 1,846,513 people, making it the second-most-populous city in the Philippines. [218] Manila is the most-densely populated city in the world, with 41,515 inhabitants per km 2 in 2015. [6]
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean , it consists of 7,641 islands , with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon , Visayas , and ...
The Manila Times was founded by Thomas Gowan, an Englishman who had been living in the Philippines. The paper was created to serve mainly the Americans who were sent to Manila to fight in the Spanish–American War. At the time, most of the newspapers in the Philippines were in Spanish and a few others were in the native languages.
The Manila Observatory is a non-profit research institute housed on the campus of the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines. It was founded by the Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, in 1865 as the Observatorio Meteorológico del Ateneo Municipal de Manila. It was later renamed Observatorio Meteorológico de Manila.
Intramuros served as the seat of government of the Captaincy General of the Philippines, a component realm of the Spanish Empire, housing the colony's governor-general from its founding in 1571 until 1865, and the Real Audiencia of Manila until the end of Spanish rule during the Philippine Revolution of 1898.
The 50 largest islands have a combined area of around 321,000 square kilometers (124,000 sq mi) and a combined population of about 100.9 million (2015); thus they contain about 99% of the Philippines' total land area and total population (2015). Combined population of Luzon and Mindanao accounts for 80% of total population of the Philippines.