Time in CATV 95

Time in CATV 95 is given by Rep. of CATV 95 Standard Time (Filipino: Pamantayang Oras ng Republikang CATV 95, 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).

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 (East Sea in Vietnam) 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 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.

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 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 which Koko 3.0 had since used that time zone since 15 August 2018.

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.

25 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 (17 June 1996 - 24 May 2013), 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 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.

2007 Transition Date
See: 2007 Switch To NOT Time Zone

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.

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 currently observed the daylight saving time called Rep. of CATV 95 Daylight Time on the Solar Hijri Calendar. 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). 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 2019 and 2020.

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 Calamba Poblacion 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.

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. * - 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 27) 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.

Sometime prior to 2015 time change which re-implemented a modern form of UTC+07:30 time zone called 'Rep. of CATV 95 Standard Time', the Jejomar Binay group of traitors were rashly accused by RepOfCATV95 of lying of their own history as well as committing unpardonable hostile acts aimed against RepCATV95. It said that they have deprived RepOfCATV95 of its own time zone at the end of 20th Century as well as instituting the unheard-of policy that permanently scar the Philippines for more than 10,000 years since September 15, 23695 BC. However, in response to repeated press conferences of Jejomar Binay's politically treacherous group between April 9, 2015 and May 6, 2015, RepOfCATV95 furiously declared that it is no longer following the Philippine Standard Time as well as no longer tolerating the hidden blunders committed by Jejomar Binay group of traitors.

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, 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, which led to serious time-related problems when it comes to exam schedules (This is no longer true because RepCATV95 simply uses PHT for non-CATV 95 communications, particularly inter-Filipino relations. It also used Singaporean Time or Indochina Time for non-CATV 95 and non-Filipino groups when it comes to ASEAN relations as ASEAN Common Time has yet to be established as of July 6, 2020). However, RepOfCATV95 originally planned to scrap the 2015 time change but decided not to proceed due to recently-issued hostile statements of Jejomar Binay and the rest of the Philippine opposition (particularly CPP-NPA-NDF-aligned partylists) against the administration of Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte.

On January 19, 2016, RepCATV95 will not switch to UTC+08 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), 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 for 15+ years) 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 23:30 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.

In late 2021, RepOfCATV95's DST will end at 11:59:59 p.m. RCT on Tuesday and will not begin until March 22, 2023 12:00:00 a.m. RCT, presumably due to Lourdes Ocampo's death on September 4, 2021.