#Military time converter calculator how to#
How to read military time - Chart with examples 12-hour
Physically, 24:00 of one day is the same time as 00:00 of the following day. The notation 24:00 serves to refer to the end of a day. In the 24-hour time notation, the day begins at midnight, 00:00. 1000 is "ten hundred" not "one thousand".In military time hours are always "hundred", never "thousand", so PM: post meridiem, after noon or after midday.AM: ante meridiem, before noon or before midday.The abbreviations AM and PM are from Latin: Another way to understand time conversion from AM/PM to military timeįrom 12:00 AM to 12:59 AM, subtract 12 hours:įrom 1:00 AM to 12:59 PM, the hours and minutes remain the same: When converting from AM/PM to military time or to 24-hour time, you just need to change the hour values while minute values remain the same. So, if the hour value has only 1 digit, the clock shows only 1 digit. Keep in mind that the 12-hour format is the one that appears on a actual watch that you wear on your wrist. The math to convert from AM/PM (12-hour clock) to 24-hour clock is the same explained above for military time with small diferences in the way we write or spell the time. For example: 2:00 PM = (2 + 12):00 = 1400, 5:30 PM = (5 + 12):30 = 1730, 11:59 PM = (11 + 12) = 2359 in military time.Īfter 23:59 PM the 12-hour clock turns to 12:00 AM which corresponds to midnight, at which point military time is reset to 0000 (the beginning of the day) and the process continues. Within these intervals above the hours and minutes remain the same.Īfter and including 1:00 PM until 11:59 PM, you should add 12 to the hours to make the corresponding military time. After 12:59 AM the 12-hour clock jumps to 1:00 AM = 0100 in military time. It starts at 0000, which corresponds to 12:00 AM. Military time or 12-hour military notation consists always of four digits. In military time the day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours from 00:00 (midnight) to 23:59. In 12-hour clock or 12-hour time notation the day is split into two 12-hour periods running from midnight (12:00 AM) to noon (12:00 PM), and noon to midnight. The first one is the 12-hour clock which uses AM and PM, and the other is the 24-hour clock. There are two main methods of displaying the time. How to convert time from 12-hour clock to 24-hour clock and to military time
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