In yet another example of misplaced priorities, the Filipino House of Representatives recently passed a bill to force all government offices to display the official Philippine government time or PST (which presumably stands for Philippine Standard Time).
Given that Filipinos are notorious for being late, with the common joke being to add at least half an hour to the agreed time, it might be a step in the right direction, but given all the other issues the Filipino government must deal with, like Mayon Volcano erupting at any moment, or the horrifying massacre of innocents in the southern Filipino province of Maguindanao led by a mayor intent on maintaining power, one wonders what the government is really focused on: micromanaging things it can control versus issues that it has virtually no control over that are actually important to people’s lives.
