Bangkok and Siam, directory . e hours is given as follows : —Yum roong(6 ), mong chao, or chao mong niing (7 ), saung mong chao (8 ), sahmmong chao (9 ), see mong chao (10 ), hah mong chao (11 ), tieng or yumtieng (12 noon), bai mong or bai mong niing (1 ), bai saung nong (2 ),bai sahm mong (3 ), bai see mong (4 ), bai hah mong (5 ), yum kam(6 ), toom niing (7 ), saung toom (8 ), yahm niing (9 ), see toom(10 ), hah toom (11 ), saung yahm (midnight), chet toom (1 ), paat toom(2 ), sahm yahm (3 ), seep toom (4 ),
Bangkok and Siam, directory . e hours is given as follows : —Yum roong(6 ), mong chao, or chao mong niing (7 ), saung mong chao (8 ), sahmmong chao (9 ), see mong chao (10 ), hah mong chao (11 ), tieng or yumtieng (12 noon), bai mong or bai mong niing (1 ), bai saung nong (2 ),bai sahm mong (3 ), bai see mong (4 ), bai hah mong (5 ), yum kam(6 ), toom niing (7 ), saung toom (8 ), yahm niing (9 ), see toom(10 ), hah toom (11 ), saung yahm (midnight), chet toom (1 ), paat toom(2 ), sahm yahm (3 ), seep toom (4 ), sip-et toom or tee sip-et (5 ),and finally yum roong (6 ), again. The hour was formerly divided into ten parts called baht, and the baht containedsix natee; the term baht is not now used, the hour being divided into 60 natee orminutes. The Siamese reckon three seasons of four months each. These seasons are calledHadoo, as follows : — 1 Radoo raun or Kimbnn Hot 2 Radoo fon or Wasah Rainy 3 Radoo naow, or Hemun Cold. Siamese Weights and Measures tamest SSeioMs anb Measures. By a decree issued in 1912 His Majesty the King was pleased to?order the introduction of the Metric System into Siam. The question of Weights and Measures reform in Siam is one whichhas been for many years before the Government. Fully twenty years agothe Ministry of Agriculture was engaged in an attempt to standardise theexisting customary system, in the course of which attempt standards weremade and laws and regulations were drafted which, however, tor one reasonand another, uever reached the stage of being enforced. Meanwhile, in theabsence of any laws or standards, the people continued to use tl e customarysystem with infinite variations or, as it gradually became necessary to findsomething more stable and accurate, adopted the systems of foreign countriessuch as the Chinese, the English, and the Metric. In the year R. S. 116 the confusion caused by the absence of legalisedweights and measures h
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