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Thailand is a country in South East Asia. The Thailand time is seven hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time or GMT. Thailand is a tropical country and has no daylight saving time till date.
The Thailand time is seven hours ahead in front of Coordinated Universal Time or UTC. The abbreviation for Thailand time is 'THA”. Since the country is near the equator, no daylight saving time is observed in the country. The Coordinated Universal Time or UTC is an atomic time scale that is approximately equal to the old Greenwich Mean Time or GMT. The Greenwich Mean Time or GMT originally refers to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich in England.
The principal system of Thailand time employs the Buddhist era method. The time in Thailand according to the Buddhist system is 543 years ahead of the Gregorian year. Thailand time also varies from the international standard on a day to day basis. The Thais use a six hour clock in addition to the 12 hour and 24 hour clock system. The six hour clock stipulates the time of counting 4 times from 1 to 6. This unique Thailand time also have additional expressions for night, morning, afternoon and evening.
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