Philippine Standard Time

Philippine Standard Time
Time zone
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.
UTC offset
PHT	UTC+08:00
Current time
16:15, 10 May 2024 PHT [refresh]
Observance of DST
DST is not observed in this time zone.

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 century until July 28, 1990.