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The time was switched on 1 April 1920 at 00:00 (old time) to 00:17:56 (new time). Timekeeper. On 1 January 1990, the Cabinet of Thailand appointed the Royal Thai Navy as the official timekeeper for Thailand. Thai Standard Time is derived from five atomic clocks maintained by the Royal Thai Navy. See also. Six-hour clock used in Thailand
Time. There are two systems of telling time in Thailand. Official time follows a 24-hour clock. The 24-hour clock is commonly used in military, aviation, navigation, meteorology, astronomy, computing, logistical, emergency services, and hospital settings, where the ambiguities of the 12-hour clock cannot be tolerated.
Thai six-hour clock. The six-hour clock is a traditional timekeeping system used in the Thai and formerly the Lao language and the Khmer language, alongside the official 24-hour clock. Like other common systems, it counts twenty-four hours in a day, but divides the day into four quarters, counting six hours in each.
Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was indicted on lese majeste charges, authorities said Wednesday, in the latest twist in a decades-long political saga in the Southeast Asian ...
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of 66 million, it spans 513,120 square kilometres (198,120 sq mi).
In October, foreign tourists entered Thailand for the first time in seven months under the Special Tourist Visa program. A total of 1,201 visitors arrived in the month, compared to 3.07 million in the same month a year earlier. A French tourist on Ko Samui in Surat Thani contracted the disease after passing the 14-day state quarantine. She ...
History of Thailand. The Tai ethnic group migrated into mainland Southeast Asia over a period of centuries. The word Siam ( Thai: สยาม RTGS : Sayam) may have originated from Pali ( suvaṇṇabhūmi, "land of gold"), Sanskrit श्याम ( śyāma, "dark"), or Mon ရာမည ( rhmañña, "stranger"), with likely the same root as ...
Thai calendar. A panel from a typical Sino-Thai calendar, showing the solar calendar month of August 2004 (B.E. 2547), as well as dates according to the Thai and Chinese lunar calendars. In Thailand, two main calendar systems are used alongside each other: the Thai solar calendar, based on the Gregorian calendar and used for official and most ...