Time in CATV 95

Time in CATV 95 is given by **Rep. of CATV 95 Standard Time** (Filipino: *Pamantayang Oras ng Republikang CATV 95, Japanese: CATV 95 共和国の公式標準時 / CATV 95 kyōwakoku no kōshiki hyōjunji,* Russian: *Официальное стандартное время республики CATV 95*, abbreviated **RCT**), which had been in use since 22 April 2015 and is 7½ hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+07:30) and will soon be renamed to **CATV 95 Standard Time** starting on April 5, 2023.

The time zone of Republic of CATV 95 is based on the meridian of 112° 30' east longitude. This meridian is located between the 105° and 120° longitudes in the middle of South China Sea (Vietnamese: Biển Đông) and is calculated from the area located 3 arcminutes 9 arcseconds north and 48 arcminutes & 7.201 arcseconds west of the official CATV 95 meridian (14°11'30" north, 121°10' east). In 2022, from May 8 to September 5, RepOfCATV95 used 116° 15' east longitude meridian which acted as a boundary of Philippines' Palawan and Borneo island (five kilometers away from Malaysia's Sabah).

In 2018, Enderman II (Koko 3.0) re-introduced Rep. of CATV 95 Standard Time on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 3 a.m. local time (3:30 a.m. RCT, 7 p.m. GMT), after nearly one year of being in sync with BITS (Built for IT Students) Organization, because ThFabba (Thomas Faber), along with Doug Lyons and NOMESS refused to accept Koko 3.0's previous time zone (UTC+08:00) for testing on still-alpha ReactOS operating system as Philippines lacked time zone data on Microsoft's own time zone database. In 2021, Extrolite has been switched back to UTC+07:30 on January 25, 2021 (Monday) at 11 p.m. (3:30 p.m. GMT) local time.

In mid-2022, RepOfCATV95 announced that it has temporarily switched to a 45-minute offset mode by adding 15 minutes to its current time at 7 May 2022 11:59:59 p.m. local time (4:29:59 p.m. GMT). However, after the month of June 2022 started, RepOfCATV95 announced the change be reverted on September 5, 2022, thus the 45-minute offset was abolished on the same day.

In late 2023, RepOfCATV95 announced that it will be observing DST starting on June 20, 2024 (Thursday) at 12 a.m. local time, just over 3 years after last DST ended on September 22, 2021 (Wednesday).

## Details

Although RepCATV95's true location lies physically in the area that is located between latitudes of 14°12'N and 14°11'N and longitudes of 121°09'E and 121°11'E respectfully, the Room 133 (modern-day CATV 95 Zone) lies on the 14°14'39.44"N latitude & 121°09'11.98"E longitude, even it is theoretically close to 121°10'E longitude which passes through Carolina Center Building which is located in Barangay Bucal, Calamba City, Laguna, Philippines. Rep. of CATV 95 Standard Time is currently maintained by RepCATV95 and is on the UTC+07:30 time zone since September 5, 2022.

## History

From 1521 to 1844, like the rest of the Philippines, RepOfCATV95 also has a same date & time as both Mexico and the Philippines until it removed 31 December 1844 from its calendar.

The first iteration of Rep. of CATV 95 Standard Time operated at 8 hours, 5 minutes and 32 seconds with respect to the GMT which was only an international time standard until it was replaced by Coordinated Universal Time in late 1960s.

Another iteration of aforementioned time zone is when Polynomial 3.0 Mean Time was used by some people who live within or near the meridian of 124°E longitude, operating at precise 8 hours, 14 minutes and 47 seconds with respect to the GMT (Polynomial 3.0 is only location being 10 minutes and 7 seconds ahead of CATV 95's mean solar time as CATV 95 time zones did not exist prior to May 11, 1899).

And finally, its last iteration falls under Koko 3.0 when its local mean time is 2 seconds behind GMT+8:04:40 (a.k.a. Bucal Mean Time), operating at precise (again) 8 hours, 4 minutes and 34 seconds with respect to the GMT (Koko 3.0 is six seconds behind).

Before 2015, Rep. of CATV 95 Standard Time & Rep. of CATV 95 Daylight Time did not exist, instead, the older CATV 95 Time (11 May 1899 - 17 June 1996) and former CATV 95 Standard Time were used as an official times of RC95.

27 years ago, the Republic of CATV 95 (formerly the Chehot's Republic of CATV 95) created the new meridian of 112°30'E as an official, naming it **CATV 95 Standard Time** (June 17, 1996 - May 24, 2013, April 5, 2023 - present), replacing older CATV 95 Time, based on the legal form of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

In 2001, the Republic of CATV 95 established the meridian of 120°E longitude by abolishing the former CATV 95 Standard Time & adopting the Philippine Time (1 January 2001 - 22 April 2015) as its official time. This is due to demands by Juanders who wanted all groups in the Philippines to synchronize their time zones with Philippine Time. Beginning then, RepCATV95's time zone prior to April 21, 2015 is same as Beijing, Hong Kong, Macao, Manila, Perth, Singapore and Taipei, meaning the addition of 30 minutes to the previous time and there will be the half-hour in the evenings.

In late 2002, Extrolite broke away from shared time zone (January 1, 2001 - April 21, 2015) after it found out that Filipino Time won't work with its own meridian because it is out of sync of the sun and stars and reverted to its own local mean time (UTC+8:23) on November 5, 2002. However, Extrolite have switched to a new time zone (UTC+8:30) instead of using older time zones (between June 17, 1996 and November 5, 2002) since on September 1, 2019.

In May 2005, RepCATV95 also changed to its own time zone (UTC+07:30) that was used prior to 1 January 2001 but reversed it on September 20, 2006 after Juanders changed them back to Philippine Time.

In 2007, the anti-Erap groups persuaded RepCATV95 to adopt their own day reckoning (which is one day behind Manila while based in remote parts of Luzon), effectively at 9:51:10 a.m. local time on January 29, 2007. This change took place in IJMC Mabuhay City Phase 2 (in Mamatid, Cabuyao, Laguna, Philippines) when RepCATV95's calendar day was changed from the Asian date to American date, as Alaska did in 1867 and Samoas in 1892, by backing one day from that calendar. However, it was Venezuelan opposition groups who requested that RepCATV95 should alter its calendar to align with them so they will rally against late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez (1954-2013) and his successor.

The change was reversed in 2010 when RepCATV95 returned to Asian side of International Date Line, effectively at 12 a.m. local time on April 2, 2010, by removing April 1, 2010 from its calendar (a repeat of 1844-45 IDL switch) at the request of barangay government of Banlic, Cabuyao (Philippines, now a city in August 2012), thus making year 2010 a 364-day calendar. That calendar date change also applied to Polynomial 3.0, Endermen and other CATV 95 locations since they were forced by anti-Erap and Venezuelan opposition groups to adopt the American calendar.

In mid-2015, after more than four thousand days (approximately 14 years) of being in sync with the city of Cabuyao as well as PAGASA, RepOfCATV95 eventually returned to using the UTC+07:30 on April 22, 2015, christening it as Rep. of CATV 95 Standard Time (April 22, 2015 - April 5, 2023) and replacing the Philippine Standard Time which have been used by RepOfCATV95 since May 24, 2013. The time change went into effect on the 45th anniversary of 1st Earth Day.

In 2022, RepOfCATV95 has switched to UTC+07:45. However, at the end of May 2022, RepOfCATV95 decided to return to its former offset which was used since April 22, 2015, with UTC+07:30 to be used from September 5, 2022 onwards.

### 2007 Transition Date

*See: 2007 Switch To NOT Time Zone*

 Monday, January 29, 2007
 Sunday, January 28, 2007

### 2010 Transition Date

On March 25, 2010, shortly after the tumultuous event which happened on March 24, 2010 (4 years before March 24, 2014 Event), CATV 95 and its parties decide to abolish the American date reckoning (first was abolished in 1844-45) and re-adopt the Asian date reckoning by removing April 1, 2010 from their calendars (Year 2010 will have 364 days because year 2007 became 366-day year).

Table below shows the transition between March 30, 2010 and April 2, 2010.

 Friday, April 2, 2010

As midnight approaches, Thursday, April 1, 2010 was followed by Friday, April 2, 2010 so that all of CATV 95 locations now have same time as PST.

### Events Leading To April 2015 Time Change

After posting a tweet that everything is up and running, RepOfCATV95 suddenly made the shocking announcement through its latest tweet that it is moving its clocks 30 minutes backwards on April 22, 2015.

### Time History of Rep. of CATV 95

Table below shows the historical and current time zones:

## Daylight Saving Time of Rep. of CATV 95 Standard Time

RepCATV95 has not observed observed the daylight saving time since September 22, 2021. Previously, it based the DST rules on the RC95 Calendar which required that the clocks should be moved forward one hour at 24 hours (precisely 23:59:59.9991996) on the 1st day & 5th month of the RC95 Calendar (June 20-21) and should be moved back to the previous state at 24 hours (precisely 23:59:59.9991996) on the last second of 1st day & 8th month of the RC95 Calendar (September 20-21) and later on Solar Hijri calendar in 2021 only. This is because the daylight saving time transitions do not occur on the same week of the month as opposed to other locations which observe DST on the same week of month. Enderman II will not observe daylight saving time with RC95 for years since 2022.

Before this, RepCATV95 used same daylight saving time rules as the rest of the Philippines did. It then re-introduced DST with first one beginning on February 28, 1997 and ending on September 22, 1997 which was an autumnal equinox. However, RepCATV95 has shortened the length of daylight saving time rules as more notable tenants of Brgy Tres of (Calamba, Philippines) prohibited its use for more than exact three months. DST was also used from 2003 to 2004 by all parties (excluding non-CATV 95 groups as well as Polynomial 3.0 which stayed on its own time zone until 2006, but including Extrolite which reverted to its own mean solar time). In October 2018, however, RepCATV95 dropped DST permanently as stated back on January 1, 2016, it will remain on standard time all year round. But it later reversed its October 2018 decision after the maintainers of Olson time zone database decided to expand DST rules beyond January 19, 2038. However, RepOfCATV95 finally cancelled the DST due to switch from Meralco's power source for entire part of daytime.

In early July 2019, RepCATV95 announced that its DST rules will be changed so that beginning in 2021, the DST will start on March 22, 2021 instead of June 21, 2021. Also, Enderman II will also use DST on 2021. Additionally, Extrolite announced that it will rejoin RepCATV95's time zone by abandoning its own time zone on January 25, 2021, thus ending its time difference with RepOfCATV95 by one hour.

On September 21, 2021, RepOfCATV95 will suspend observing DST which is expected to begin on March 22, 2022 and said that DST will make its comeback beginning in 2023. However, on April 18, 2022, RepOfCATV95 cancelled the DST entirely mere two weeks before its switch to UTC+07:45 on the eve of 2022 Philippine elections.

\* - Last to observe a 3-month DST

NOTE: skipped denotes that RepOfCATV95 skipped DST due to being on Philippine Standard Time (UTC+08:00).

## Current Standard Time

In 2011, Republic of CATV 95 temporarily delayed 30 minutes (although not true) at 2:40 a.m. local time (6:40 a.m. UTC on September 9, 2011), following the death of Marvin L. Ocampo (May 24, 1992 - September 10, 2011, post-humously aged 30) on September 10, 2011 at around 2:09:54 AM CATV 95 Time (6:39:54 p.m. UTC on September 9, 2011), and reverted to UTC+08:00 shortly after his burial at Rizal Memorial Park, located in Barangay Lecheria, Calamba City (Philippines) at about 1:30 p.m. (6:00 a.m. UTC).

On 1 April 2012, The Republic of CATV 95 reverted to the old time zone which is UTC+07:30; thus moving clocks backward 30 minutes at 12 a.m. local time (16:00 UTC) and continuing using it (while observing DST at the same time in late 2012) until May 24, 2013 when it was changed again to UTC+08:00, effectively at 12 a.m. local time (16:30 UTC), as the new Filipino time zone called 'Philippine Standard Time' was proclaimed via Republic Act No. 10535 and fully implemented on June 1, 2013 as the previous administration of former Philippine President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III urged the Filipinos who are accustomed to their own choice of time to sync their timepieces with PAGASA's new time standard (now called Juan Time, now established on June 1, 2013) and to celebrate the 1st National Time Conscious Week which was held on 2nd week of January 2014.

At the evening of April 21, 2015 (10:08 UTC), RepCATV95 tweeted that it is time for its clocks to be moved back 30 minutes and to create the half-hour time zone called Rep. of CATV 95 Standard Time, replacing PST as its official time.

On April 22, 2015, through the Facebook note called *RepCATV95's Time Zone Details*[1], RepCATV95 changed its time zone from UTC+08:00 (currently used by Philippine Standard Time, a.k.a. Juan Time) to the pre-2001 one (a.k.a. RCT before August 15, 2018 or RCT±0 afterwards, though the abbreviation 'RCT' is still used) in order to keep the time difference from PHT, which was abolished on June 1, 2013. This a same time zone used from 1996 to 2001. As a result, the UTC time offset of CATV 95 Standard Time is now UTC+07:30, 30 minutes behind the previous time.

On January 19, 2016, RepCATV95 will not switch to UTC+08:00 as BITS Organization strongly favors the switch to the new time zone called 'BITS Org Time' which is same as Philippine Standard Time. As a result, BITS Org Time (UTC+08:00) will be previously 30 minutes ahead of Rep. of CATV 95 Standard Time (UTC+07:30).

However, in November 2016, RepCATV95 reversed its approach and decided to abandon the 2015 time change due to severe crises caused by wrath of the Binays, Aquinos and other oligarchs who harshly opposed the Rodrigo Duterte's administration with the return of the UTC+08:00 time zone slated to begin on 30 November 2016 at 11:30 p.m. (23:30) local time. However, it changed its mind and decided to permanently cancel the switch to UTC+08:00 due to implications such as bullying of CATV 95 by Jejomar Binay group of traitors and others.

In 2017, RepOfCATV95 rejected the useless demands by the former STI College Calamba friends of John Joshua L. Nogoy, who were graduated along with RepOfCATV95's owner on 17 May 2018, to change its time zone back to UTC+08:00 before 23 January 2017 (ThFabba's rejection of Philippine Standard Time forced Koko 3.0 to revert the January 2017 time change on 15 August 2018), citing external threats that were badly exacerbated by the former BSIT602 students of STI College Calamba. But it also said that it will not change its 30-minute offset before 6 May 2017 because it would make RepOfCATV95 an appendage to STI College Calamba's former BSIT602 students. The local time of RepOfCATV95 now stands after the STI graduation which took place on same date.

Despite this, prior to 2021, RepCATV95 has observed the standard time for nine months and also uses the daylight saving time for three months (shortest period because many places use 3-month DST) since 28 February 1997, except for first 32 days of 161-day DST and remaining 92 days for second DST. However, due to May 2019 elections as well as STI Calamba's graduation events (now moved to June 14, 2019) and first anniversary of STI Calamba's 2018 graduation event (later ruined by another aftermath of 17-year old incident just 22.2415 hours after the midnight), it decided to pause DST for 37 days.

Beginning in 2021, it will begin observing DST from March to September, aligning its DST rules with Solar Hijri Calendar.

In between September 28, 2019 and January 27, 2020, RepOfCATV95 declined any request from one of non-CATV 95 groups to abandon the half-hour time zone permanently and also declared that its owner will never ever join the activities (later cancelled due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which remained until COVID-19 virus becomes irrelevant at the end of 2025) as it is considered infeasible.

In late February 2020, RepOfCATV95 announced that it was scrapping its April 2015 time change, with return of UTC+08:00 slated to begin at 11:30 p.m. local time (4pm GMT) on March 15, 2020. Additionally, the upcoming daylight saving time slated to begin on June 20, 2020 was canceled.

However, about 1 hour later, RepOfCATV95, fearing of Binays' takeover of the Philippines, decided not to proceed with the time change and continue observing DST which was permanently abolished on April 18, 2022.

In late 2021, RepOfCATV95's DST will end at 11:59:59 p.m. RCT on Tuesday and will not make its comeback, presumably due to Lourdes Ocampo's death on September 4, 2021.

On April 18, 2022, RepOfCATV95 announced that it will advance its official time by 15 minutes due to permanent abandonment of Meralco's power source for solar one as a result of crisis in Ukraine and myriad of austerity measures in response of tenfold increase of electric bills, but after Meralco started refunding its customers and lowering the electric bills in wake of events of July 15-16, 2022 resulting from permanent ban on use of HDDs as main boot drives starting on June 15, 2023, RepOfCATV95 decided to revert the time change in early September 2022. The time change went into effect at 12:14:59 a.m. on September 5, 2022.

On April 5, 2023, RepOfCATV95's time zone's name will be changed to CATV 95 Standard Time, eventually dropping 'Rep. of' prefix from it. However, its Windows counterpart will remain unchanged.

## References

1. ↑ "3 years ago, RepCATV95 decided to use a 30-minute offset for its own time zone, thereby replacing the 120° East meridian time which has been used by RepCATV95 almost 17 years ago."
2. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/notes/adrian-o-guanieso/why-the-republic-of-catv-95-switched-the-time-zones-back-and-forth/387220075001700/
3. ↑ In April 2010, RepOfCATV95 lost one day as it swapped two calendars from American to Asian and kept its own time zone.
4. ↑ Bukal Mean Time is used by people of Bucal, Calamba, Laguna during Spanish period in the Philippines (1521-1898) as CATV 95 Time, CATV 95 Standard Time and Rep. of CATV 95 Standard Time did not exist at that time.
5. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/marvOcampo (Marvin Ocampo's Facebook account has since been deactivated after December 2019)
6. ↑ National Time Consciousness Week of 2014 (ibismandaluyong.wordpress.com)
7. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/RepOfCATV95/videos/vb.100004000337893/766777976798873/?type=3
8. ↑ Philippine Standard Time was created on June 1, 2013 via Republic Act No. 10535 known as 'Philippine Standard Time Act of 2013'
9. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/VentoeAlphaLand2020/videos/732768700199801/
10. ↑ UTC+07:30 was formerly used as a standard time for Malaysia and Singapore. It was currently the only standard time of the Republic of CATV 95, firstly from 17 June 1996 to 1 January 2001, secondly from 18 May 2005 to 20 September 2006 and thirdly from 1 April 2012 to 24 May 2013. It remains an only time zone of both the Republic of CATV 95 and Koko 3.0 since 22 April 2015 and 15 August 2018, respectively. On August 15, 2018, UTC+07:30 will be used by both Koko 3.0 and RepCATV95 together from 2019 onwards.
11. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/noi.sengchan
12. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000771860296 (info might be mostly not available from October 24, 2022 onwards)
13. ↑ https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/373
14. ↑ https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/1361
15. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/notes/adrian-rhey-ocampo-guanieso/enderman-ii-switches-to-rep-of-catv-95-standard-time-in-august-2018/1695722957144166/
16. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/tatoo.creazy.16
17. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005190364289 (some info might not be available mostly from June 14, 2022 onwards)
18. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009963484080 (requires logging in your Facebook account or else you will get Page not found error)
19. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/terahbytes (link is now dead)
20. ↑ Due to statements of Jejomar Binay related to their pathetic acts committed against the divine peoples, 4 days before March 15, 2020, the Chehot's Republic of CATV 95 (today Republic of CATV 95) said it was cancelling the time change and resuming observing DST in June.