Daylight Saving Time in the Philippines

Daylight Saving Time (DST) kicked in at 2 am on Sunday, March 12, as clocks in the United States, in an annual ritual, "sprang forward" by an hour to make more productive use of available daylight.

DST ends when clocks "fall back" (gaining one hour) at 2 am on Sunday, November 5.

For the hundreds of thousands of call center or business process outsourcing (BPO) employees in Metro Manila and