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Military time converter
Type a regular time to get military time, or the other way round. The chart below shows every hour, and how each one is said out loud.
1430
fourteen thirty hours
7:45 a.m.
Military time chart
Every hour of the day in military time, and how to say it.
| Regular time | Military time | Said as |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00 a.m. | 0000 | zero hundred hours |
| 1:00 a.m. | 0100 | zero one hundred hours |
| 2:00 a.m. | 0200 | zero two hundred hours |
| 3:00 a.m. | 0300 | zero three hundred hours |
| 4:00 a.m. | 0400 | zero four hundred hours |
| 5:00 a.m. | 0500 | zero five hundred hours |
| 6:00 a.m. | 0600 | zero six hundred hours |
| 7:00 a.m. | 0700 | zero seven hundred hours |
| 8:00 a.m. | 0800 | zero eight hundred hours |
| 9:00 a.m. | 0900 | zero nine hundred hours |
| 10:00 a.m. | 1000 | ten hundred hours |
| 11:00 a.m. | 1100 | eleven hundred hours |
| 12:00 p.m. | 1200 | twelve hundred hours |
| 1:00 p.m. | 1300 | thirteen hundred hours |
| 2:00 p.m. | 1400 | fourteen hundred hours |
| 3:00 p.m. | 1500 | fifteen hundred hours |
| 4:00 p.m. | 1600 | sixteen hundred hours |
| 5:00 p.m. | 1700 | seventeen hundred hours |
| 6:00 p.m. | 1800 | eighteen hundred hours |
| 7:00 p.m. | 1900 | nineteen hundred hours |
| 8:00 p.m. | 2000 | twenty hundred hours |
| 9:00 p.m. | 2100 | twenty-one hundred hours |
| 10:00 p.m. | 2200 | twenty-two hundred hours |
| 11:00 p.m. | 2300 | twenty-three hundred hours |
How to read military time
- Four digits, no colon. The first two are the hour, the last two the minutes: 0905 is 9:05 a.m.
- Morning stays the same. Before noon, military time is the regular time with a leading zero.
- Afternoon adds twelve. 1 p.m. is 1300, 6 p.m. is 1800, 11 p.m. is 2300.
- Midnight is 0000 and noon is 1200.
Spelling a time over the radio? Phonetic Relay reads out numbers the way radio operators say them, such as “niner” for 9. See the NATO numbers.
Questions
What is military time?
Military time is the 24-hour clock written without a colon. The day runs from 0000 (midnight) to 2359 (one minute before the next midnight), so 1 p.m. is 1300 and 6:30 p.m. is 1830.
How do you convert military time to regular time?
For 1300 and later, subtract 12 from the hours and add p.m.: 1545 is 3:45 p.m. From 0100 to 1159, take away any leading zero and add a.m.: 0730 is 7:30 a.m. 0000 to 0059 is just after midnight, so 0015 is 12:15 a.m., and 1200 to 1259 is just after noon.
How do you say military time out loud?
Say the hours and the minutes as two numbers, then “hours”: 1430 is “fourteen thirty hours” and 0600 is “zero six hundred hours”. Many people say “oh” instead of “zero”.
Is midnight 0000 or 2400?
Midnight at the start of a day is 0000. Some schedules write 2400 for midnight at the end of a day, so a shift can run from 1600 to 2400, but the clock itself never shows 2400.
What does the Z in 1430Z mean?
Z stands for Zulu time, which is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Pilots and the military add it so a time means the same thing in every time zone.