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"Quarter to six" for 17:45 for me... but then I was born in Margate.
Here's how Thailand time works:-
The 24 hours is split into 4 six hour segments - midnight, 06:00, 12:00, 18:00.
To paraphrase (and save you the awkward transliteration) 08:00 would be spoken as "2 hours morning time" as 08:00 is 2 hours after the 06:00 'morning' segment.
"3 hours afternoon" would be 12:00 + 3 = 15:00
and so on... and to make it more interesting, a Thai may choose to tell time in the 'western' fashion on a whim.
Radio/TV time announcments are in 24hr military stylee...
Anyway, after the sun is over the yardarm it's time for nice gin & tonic.
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