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Philippine Standard Time was instituted through Batas Pambansa Blg. 8 (that defined the metric system), approved on December 2, 1978, and implemented on January 1, 1983. The Philippines is one of the few countries to officially and almost exclusively use the 12-hour clock in non-military situations.
The attack on Pearl Harbor[ nb 3] was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00 a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941. At the time, the United States was a neutral country in World War II.
Time in Arizona, as in all U.S. states, is regulated by the United States Department of Transportation [ 1] as well as by state and tribal law. All of Arizona is in the Mountain Time Zone. [ 2] Since 1968, most of the state—except the Navajo Nation —does not observe daylight saving time and remains on Mountain Standard Time (MST) all year.
The White House, official residence of the president of the United States, in July 2008. The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, [1] indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. [2]
The Martin JRM Mars is a large, four-engined cargo transport flying boat designed and built by the Martin Company for the United States Navy during World War II.It was the largest Allied flying boat to enter production, although only seven were built.
The time 8:45 may be spoken as "eight forty-five" or "(a) quarter to nine". [17] In older English, it was common for the number 25 to be expressed as "five-and-twenty". [18] In this way the time 8:35 may be phrased as "five-and-twenty to 9", [19] although this styling fell out of fashion in the later part of the 1900s and is now rarely used. [20]
Capture of the Philippines was essential to control shipping routes between Japan and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Hostilities were initiated by the attack on Pearl Harbor at 07:48 Hawaiian Time (UTC−10:30) on 7 December 1941. [1] At the same time as the attack on Clark field, a smaller fighter base at Iba in Luzon was also ...
Variant after Arizona and New Mexico achieved statehood 1919–1936: From October 30, 1919, [2] two flags were flown in the Philippines: the American flag and the flag conceived by Emilio Aguinaldo which was made the national flag of the Philippines with the repealing of Act No. 1697. [3] The American flag remained unchanged since 1919.