Time in

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is given by Palau Time (PWT; UTC+09:00). Palau does not have an associated

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. Palau Time is equivalent to

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, Korean Standard Time, Pyongyang Time (

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), Eastern Indonesia Standard Time, East-Timorese Standard Time, and Yakutsk Time (

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History

Until the end of 1844,

belonged to

Captaincy General of the Philippines The Captaincy General of the Philippines was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire in Southeast Asia governed by a governor-general as a dependency of the Viceroyalty of New Spain based in Mexico City until Mexican independence when i ...

, which followed the date of the western hemisphere on its island. At the end of Monday, 30 December 1844, Palau was transferred to eastern hemisphere in response to Philippines's decision to switch sides of the line. This brought Palau closer to Asia (and in the process removing Tuesday, 31 December 1844 from the calendar). Before time zones were introduced, every place used local observation of the sun to set its clocks, which meant that every location used a different local mean time based on its longitude. For example, Koror, the largest city of Palau at the time, at longitude 134°29′E, had a local time equivalent to GMT-15:02:04 under the date of the western hemisphere and GMT+08:57:56 under the eastern hemisphere. In 1901, "Palau Time" (PWT) was established as GMT+09:00.

IANA time zone database

The

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gives Palau one time zone, Pacific/Palau.Australasia
(2020 edition) at the

tz database The tz database is a collaborative compilation of information about the world's time zones and rules for observing daylight saving time, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems. Paul Eggert has been its editor an ...

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(IANA). Retrieved 20 May 2021.

References

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