5:00 Two steps to solve this: 1. Disregard the irrelevant information given, as per the instructions. The specifications say only return the time, so we ignore the first two sentences. 2. Focus on the last sentence: "The actual time is a quarter past an hour." This gives us the key information - the correct time is 15 minutes after the hour (quarter = 15 minutes). 3. Since this is on the hour, the minute part of the time must be 00. And on a 12-hour clock, a quarter past the hour is at 5 (30 minutes = half past, 45 minutes = a quarter to). 4. So putting it together, the correct time is 5:00. This matches the required HH:MM format.