Time (Thailand)

Time in Thailand refers to the UTC + 7 ( Coordinated Universal Time ) time zone that is used in the country and does not apply to daylight saving time . The Thai Standard Time is abbreviated as "THA".

In 2001, the then Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra announced the intention to change the Thai standard time to UTC + 8 in order to be in a common time zone with Singapore , Malaysia , China , Hong Kong and the Philippines ( ASEAN time zone ).

Indication of the date

Thai dates are based on the Buddhist calendar , which begins with the death of Gautama Buddha and is 543 before the Gregorian calendar . As an example: the year 2017 is 2560 in Thai date.

Times of day

In many areas of Thailand a six-hour daily rhythm is used in everyday language, similar to the twelve-hour rhythm in German, in which Es ist ein can stand for 1 a.m. or 1 p.m. In detail:

• mong chao ( Thai : โมง เช้า , [mōːŋ tɕʰáːw] ) for the time between 7:00 and 12:59
• bai mong (Thai: บ่าย โมง , [bàːj mōːŋ] ) for the time between 13.00 and 18.59
• thum (Thai: ทุ่ม , [tʰûm] ) for the time between 19.00 and 0.59
• ti (Thai: ตี , [tīː] ) for the time between 1.00 and 6.59

This type of time indication was announced in 1901 by King Chulalongkorn (r. 1868 to 1910) in the Royal Gazette .

Thailand has also followed the international standard ISO 8601 as the national variant TIS 1111: 2535 since 1992 .

See also

• Time zone
• ASEAN Common Time
• Suriyakati calendar

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Timezone ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore (last accessed July 6, 2011)