Military Time Converter

Military time is a 24-hour clock that counts the hours of the day from 0000 at midnight to 2359 at 11:59 PM. It removes the need for AM and PM because every hour has its own unique number.

For any PM hour except 12, add 12 to the hour. For example, 7:30 PM becomes 1930. Noon (12 PM) stays 1200, and AM hours stay the same except midnight, which becomes 0000.

Both refer to midnight. 0000 marks the start of a new day, while 2400 is sometimes used to mark the end of a day in schedules. This converter uses 0000 for midnight.

Read the hours and minutes as numbers. 0600 is said as zero six hundred, and 1430 is said as fourteen thirty. When the minutes are zero, people often say the word hundred after the hour.

Yes, they use the same system. The main difference is formatting: military time is usually written without a colon (1930), while civilian 24-hour time often uses one (19:30).

Noon is 1200 and midnight is 0000. These two are the most common conversion mistakes, so the converter on this page handles them automatically.

No. Minutes work exactly the same in both systems and always run from 00 to 59. Only the hour number changes when you convert.

Armed forces, hospitals, airlines, railways, emergency services, and most countries around the world use the 24-hour clock because it avoids confusion between morning and evening times.