If I lived about 20 minutes walk away and I said I would start out "after five" what time would you expect me to arrive? 5:20? Sometime between 5 and 6? No way to tell because of the lack of information?
Before six, but likely after five thirty. After Five indicates within the half hour period after five o'clock, as opposed to the period before six, which would be Before Six.
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Date: 2005-04-25 09:06 pm (UTC)