Philippine Standard Time Philippine Standard Time Philippine Standard Time (, abbreviated PST or PhST), also known as Philippine Time (PHT), is the official name for the time in the Philippines. The country only uses one time zone (), and for a short period, it also used daylight saving time. Geographically, the Philippines lies within 116°40′ and 126°34′ east of the Prime Meridian, and is physically located within the time zone. Philippine Standard Time is maintained by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). The Philippines shares the same time zone with Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei, central Indonesia,
Comparison of standard Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian Comparison of standard Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian Standard Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian are different national variants and official registers of the pluricentric Serbo-Croatian language. In socialist Yugoslavia, the official policy insisted on one unitary language with two regional normative varieties—Eastern (used in Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina by all ethnicities, either with the Ekavian or the Ijekavian accent) and Western (used in Croatia by all ethnicities, the Ijekavian accent only). However, due to discontent in Croatian intellectual circles, beginning in the late 1960s Croatian cultural workers started to refer to the language exclusively as 'the Croatian literary