Military Time Converter
Type a time in either box. It converts both ways as you type — no button, no waiting.
Type in either box — it converts as you type. Accepts 1300, 13:00, 1:00 PM, 0000 and 2400.
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How to convert military time
Military time is the 24-hour clock written as four digits with no colon: the first two are the hour, the last two are the minutes. Every hour of the day gets its own number, from 0000 at midnight through 2300, so there is no AM or PM and nothing to misread on a schedule.
Converting by hand takes one rule in each direction:
- Morning stays the same. Keep the hour and pad it to two digits — 7:15 AM becomes 0715. Midnight is the exception: 12 AM becomes 0000.
- Afternoon and evening add 12. 1 PM through 11 PM become 1300 through 2300, so 6:30 PM is 1830. Noon is the exception: 12 PM stays 1200.
- Going back the other way, anything from 1300 up loses 12 and becomes PM: 2045 minus 12 is 8:45 PM.
The minutes never change in either direction. If you are converting for a timesheet rather than a schedule, you probably want decimal minutes instead — see the military minutes chart.
Military time chart: all 24 hours
| Military | 12-hour | Spoken aloud |
|---|---|---|
| 0000 | 12:00 AM | zero hundred hours |
| 0100 | 1:00 AM | zero one hundred hours |
| 0200 | 2:00 AM | zero two hundred hours |
| 0300 | 3:00 AM | zero three hundred hours |
| 0400 | 4:00 AM | zero four hundred hours |
| 0500 | 5:00 AM | zero five hundred hours |
| 0600 | 6:00 AM | zero six hundred hours |
| 0700 | 7:00 AM | zero seven hundred hours |
| 0800 | 8:00 AM | zero eight hundred hours |
| 0900 | 9:00 AM | zero nine hundred hours |
| 1000 | 10:00 AM | ten hundred hours |
| 1100 | 11:00 AM | eleven hundred hours |
| 1200 | 12:00 PM | twelve hundred hours |
| 1300 | 1:00 PM | thirteen hundred hours |
| 1400 | 2:00 PM | fourteen hundred hours |
| 1500 | 3:00 PM | fifteen hundred hours |
| 1600 | 4:00 PM | sixteen hundred hours |
| 1700 | 5:00 PM | seventeen hundred hours |
| 1800 | 6:00 PM | eighteen hundred hours |
| 1900 | 7:00 PM | nineteen hundred hours |
| 2000 | 8:00 PM | twenty hundred hours |
| 2100 | 9:00 PM | twenty-one hundred hours |
| 2200 | 10:00 PM | twenty-two hundred hours |
| 2300 | 11:00 PM | twenty-three hundred hours |
Need it on paper for a break room or a nursing station? The full military time chart is laid out to print cleanly on one page.
Military minutes: the decimal chart
Payroll and nursing systems record part-hours as decimals rather than minutes, which is where "military minutes" comes from. Fifteen minutes is .25 of an hour, thirty is .50, forty-five is .75. A shift from 0800 to 1615 is 8.25 hours, not 8 hours 15.
| Minutes | Decimal | Minutes | Decimal |
|---|---|---|---|
| :00 | .00 | :30 | .50 |
| :05 | .08 | :35 | .58 |
| :10 | .17 | :40 | .67 |
| :15 | .25 | :45 | .75 |
| :20 | .33 | :50 | .83 |
| :25 | .42 | :55 | .92 |
That is every fifth minute. The complete military minutes chart lists all 60.
Military time questions people actually ask
What is military time?
Military time is the 24-hour clock written as four digits with no colon. The first two digits are the hour (00 through 23) and the last two are the minutes, so 1:00 PM is written 1300 and 9:45 PM is written 2145. Because every hour of the day has its own number, there is no AM or PM and no way to mistake one for the other.
Why does military time not use a colon?
The colon was dropped so a time could be written and read as a single four-digit number, quickly and without ambiguity, in handwritten logs and radio traffic. Civilian 24-hour clocks in Europe and most of the world do keep the colon and write 13:00 — the underlying time is identical, only the notation differs.
How do you say military time out loud?
Read the hour as a number, then the minutes, then "hours". 1300 is "thirteen hundred hours", 0600 is "zero six hundred hours", and 1345 is "thirteen forty-five hours". Minutes under ten get an "oh": 1305 is "thirteen oh five hours". Saying "hundred hours" only applies when the minutes are zero.
Is midnight 0000 or 2400?
Both are used and both are correct — they just mark different ends of the same instant. A day begins at 0000 and ends at 2400, so a shift that starts at midnight starts at 0000, while a shift that runs until midnight ends at 2400. The US military generally prefers 0000 for a starting time; the minute after 2359 is always 0000.
What is the difference between military time and Zulu time?
Military time is a notation — how a time is written. Zulu time is a time zone: Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), written with a trailing Z, as in 1800Z. Zulu time is written in military notation, but it is always UTC rather than local time, so operations spread across time zones can share one clock.
How do I convert PM hours to military time?
Add 12 to any PM hour from 1 through 11: 3 PM becomes 1500, 8 PM becomes 2000. 12 PM (noon) stays 1200. For AM hours, keep the same hour and pad it to two digits: 7 AM becomes 0700, and 12 AM (midnight) becomes 0000. The minutes never change.
What are military minutes?
Military minutes — more accurately decimal minutes — are what payroll and nursing systems use to record fractions of an hour. Instead of 30 minutes you record .50, instead of 15 minutes you record .25. A shift from 0800 to 1615 is 8.25 hours. Our military minutes chart lists all 60 conversions.
Does the rest of the world use military time?
Most of it does. The 24-hour clock is the standard civilian format across Europe, Latin America and much of Asia, usually written with a colon as 13:00. It is mainly the United States, Canada, Australia and a handful of others where the 12-hour clock dominates in everyday use, which is why Americans call the format "military time" at all.
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