ESTABLISHING THE DAYLGHT SAVINGS TIME FOR THE PHILIPPINES DURING THE SUMMER SEASON OF 1954

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by
Commonwealth Act No. 91, and in order that officers, employees, and laborers of
the government may be afforded sunlight for work and recreation purposes after
office hours, and to effect savings in the use of light both to the government
and the general public, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, do
hereby proclaim daylight saving time for the Philippines for the period between
April twelfth, nineteen-hundred and fifty-four, and July first,
nineteen-hundred and fifty-four, and hereby order that at twelve
o’clock-midnight on April eleventh, nineteen-hundred and fifty-four, the
standard time in the Philippines fixed in the aforesaid Act shall be advanced
one hour, and at twelve o’clock midnight on June thirtieth, nineteen-hundred
and fifty-four, the time fixed as above-stated shall be set back or retarded
one hour so as to return to standard time.

Employers and the public in general are hereby
enjoined to give effect to the purpose and intent of this Proclamation and of
Act numbered ninety-one. For purposes of astronomy and meteorology, however,
the mean astronomical time to one hundred and twenty degrees East longitude,
Greenwich Meridian, may be used as heretofore.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done at the City of Manila, this 6th day of
April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen-hundred and fifty-four, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the eighth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary