Military Time Converter
Convert military (24-hour) time to standard 12-hour time and back, with a full conversion chart.
| Military | Standard | Spoken |
|---|---|---|
| 0000 | 12:00 AM | zero hundred (midnight) |
| 0100 | 1:00 AM | zero one hundred |
| 0200 | 2:00 AM | zero two hundred |
| 0300 | 3:00 AM | zero three hundred |
| 0400 | 4:00 AM | zero four hundred |
| 0500 | 5:00 AM | zero five hundred |
| 0600 | 6:00 AM | zero six hundred |
| 0700 | 7:00 AM | zero seven hundred |
| 0800 | 8:00 AM | zero eight hundred |
| 0900 | 9:00 AM | zero nine hundred |
| 1000 | 10:00 AM | ten hundred |
| 1100 | 11:00 AM | eleven hundred |
| 1200 | 12:00 PM | twelve hundred |
| 1300 | 1:00 PM | thirteen hundred |
| 1400 | 2:00 PM | fourteen hundred |
| 1500 | 3:00 PM | fifteen hundred |
| 1600 | 4:00 PM | sixteen hundred |
| 1700 | 5:00 PM | seventeen hundred |
| 1800 | 6:00 PM | eighteen hundred |
| 1900 | 7:00 PM | nineteen hundred |
| 2000 | 8:00 PM | twenty hundred |
| 2100 | 9:00 PM | twenty-one hundred |
| 2200 | 10:00 PM | twenty-two hundred |
| 2300 | 11:00 PM | twenty-three hundred |
Written by Anil Gautam · Updated
What can you type into the military time box?
The converter removes anything that is not a digit and pads the rest to four digits. So 930 is read as 0930, which is 9:30 AM, and 14:30 works the same as 1430. It needs at least three digits, an hour from 00 to 23 and minutes from 00 to 59; anything else shows the prompt "Type a time like 0930, 1430, or 2200". That rule rejects 2400, 0860 and a bare 12, so type 0000 for midnight and 1200 for noon.
A trailing Z, as in 1430Z for UTC (Zulu) time, is dropped along with any other letter. The answer is 2:30 PM in the same zone, with no time zone conversion, so use the Time Zone Converter to see that moment in your local time. Beside the converter, a chart lists every hour from 0000 to 2300 with its 12-hour form and highlights the row for the hour you typed.
How do you write 12 AM and 12 PM in military time?
The second box converts the other way. For AM times the hour stays as it is, except 12 AM, which becomes 00; for PM times the tool adds 12 to the hour, except 12 PM, which stays 12. So 12:30 AM is 0030, half an hour after midnight, while 12:15 PM is 1215, a quarter past noon. Other times follow the plain rule: 7:05 AM is 0705 and 11:59 PM is 2359. The minutes stay the same in both formats.
A night shift written as 2200 to 0600 crosses midnight, so its end time falls on the next calendar day. The hour and minute boxes also cap what you type: an hour above 12 counts as 12 and minutes above 59 count as 59, so check both boxes if a result looks wrong.
How is military time said out loud?
Below the military time it produces, the second box shows how it is said, such as "14 30" hours for 2:30 PM and "19 hundred" hours for 7:00 PM. In words, 1430 is fourteen thirty, 1900 is nineteen hundred, and the leading zero of a morning time is usually spoken as zero, so 0600 is zero six hundred. Military writing puts the four digits together with no colon, and many people add "hours" after the number when they say it.