--- title: "Military Time Converter | Method Calculator" description: "Convert military (24-hour) time to standard 12-hour time and back instantly, with a full conversion chart from 0000 to 2300." canonical_url: "https://methodcalculator.com/military-time-converter" meta: "og:description": "Convert military (24-hour) time to standard 12-hour time and back instantly, with a full conversion chart from 0000 to 2300." "og:image": "https://methodcalculator.com/_og/s/o_7a4d75adffda7dcf.png" "og:image:height": "600" "og:image:type": image/png "og:image:width": "1200" "og:title": "Military Time Converter – Free Online Tool" "twitter:image": "https://methodcalculator.com/_og/s/o_7a4d75adffda7dcf.png" --- > Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://methodcalculator.com/llms.txt) # **Military Time Converter** Type a time in either format. A 12-hour time such as 2:30 PM converts to military time, and a military or 24-hour time such as 1430 converts to the 12-hour clock, with the spoken form and a full conversion chart. ## **Result** Military time **1430**
Military time
**1430**
24-hour clock
14:30
12-hour clock
2:30 PM
Spoken
fourteen thirty
**Military time conversion chart** | **Military** | **24-hour** | **12-hour** | **Spoken** | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 0000 | 00:00 | 12:00 AM | zero zero hundred | | 0100 | 01:00 | 1:00 AM | zero one hundred | | 0200 | 02:00 | 2:00 AM | zero two hundred | | 0300 | 03:00 | 3:00 AM | zero three hundred | | 0400 | 04:00 | 4:00 AM | zero four hundred | | 0500 | 05:00 | 5:00 AM | zero five hundred | | 0600 | 06:00 | 6:00 AM | zero six hundred | | 0700 | 07:00 | 7:00 AM | zero seven hundred | | 0800 | 08:00 | 8:00 AM | zero eight hundred | | 0900 | 09:00 | 9:00 AM | zero nine hundred | | 1000 | 10:00 | 10:00 AM | ten hundred | | 1100 | 11:00 | 11:00 AM | eleven hundred | | 1200 | 12:00 | 12:00 PM | twelve hundred | | 1300 | 13:00 | 1:00 PM | thirteen hundred | | 1400 | 14:00 | 2:00 PM | fourteen hundred | | 1500 | 15:00 | 3:00 PM | fifteen hundred | | 1600 | 16:00 | 4:00 PM | sixteen hundred | | 1700 | 17:00 | 5:00 PM | seventeen hundred | | 1800 | 18:00 | 6:00 PM | eighteen hundred | | 1900 | 19:00 | 7:00 PM | nineteen hundred | | 2000 | 20:00 | 8:00 PM | twenty hundred | | 2100 | 21:00 | 9:00 PM | twenty-one hundred | | 2200 | 22:00 | 10:00 PM | twenty-two hundred | | 2300 | 23:00 | 11:00 PM | twenty-three hundred | ## What is military time? Military time is the 24-hour clock written as four digits with no colon: the day runs from 0000 at midnight to 2359 one minute before the next midnight. Because every moment has a single unambiguous value, there is no AM or PM to mix up and no doubt about whether 12:00 means noon or midnight. The armed forces of the United States and most NATO countries use it for orders and logs, and so do hospitals (medication charts), aviation (flight plans and ATC), emergency services, railways and shipping. Outside the English-speaking world the 24-hour clock is simply the normal written format: timetables, tickets and phones in most of Europe, Asia and Latin America show 14:30 rather than 2:30 PM. ## How to convert military time The hours are the only thing that changes; minutes stay exactly the same. **12-hour to military:** for PM times from 1:00 PM to 11:59 PM, add 12 to the hour. AM times keep their hour and gain a leading zero if needed. 12:xx AM becomes 00xx and 12:xx PM stays 12xx. **Military to 12-hour:** for 1300 to 2359, subtract 12 from the hour and add PM. 0100 to 1159 keep their hour and are AM. 0000 to 0059 is 12:xx AM and 1200 to 1259 is 12:xx PM. **Example:** 2:30 PM is a PM time after noon, so 2 + 12 = 14 and the result is **1430**, spoken "fourteen thirty". Going back, 1430 is 13 or later, so 14 − 12 = 2 and it is **2:30 PM**. A morning time such as 9:05 AM simply becomes 0905 ("zero nine zero five"). ## Midnight: 0000 or 2400? Both refer to the same instant, but they belong to different days. 0000 is the first minute of a new day, which is how a clock reads it and what this converter shows. 2400 is the last instant of the day that is ending, and is used only when you want to make that clear, as in "the deadline is 2400 on 15 June". The next minute after 2400 is 0001, never 2401. Most style guides, including the US military's, prefer 0000 for schedules and 2359 or 0001 when you want to avoid any argument about which day is meant. ## How military time is spoken Whole hours are read with "hundred": 0600 is "zero six hundred", 1200 is "twelve hundred", 2000 is "twenty hundred". Other times are read in two digit pairs: 0730 is "zero seven thirty", 1515 is "fifteen fifteen", 2145 is "twenty-one forty-five". A single-digit minute keeps its zero, so 1005 is "ten zero five". The word "hours" is often added ("zero six hundred hours"), and some services say "oh" rather than "zero" for the leading digit. A letter after the time marks the time zone: 1430Z is 14:30 UTC (Zulu time), while a local time may be written 1430L or 1430J (Juliett). ## Quick-reference table | 12-hour | Military | 12-hour | Military | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 12:00 AM (midnight) | 0000 | 12:00 PM (noon) | 1200 | | 1:00 AM | 0100 | 1:00 PM | 1300 | | 3:00 AM | 0300 | 3:00 PM | 1500 | | 6:00 AM | 0600 | 6:00 PM | 1800 | | 9:00 AM | 0900 | 9:00 PM | 2100 | | 11:00 AM | 1100 | 11:00 PM | 2300 | | 11:59 AM | 1159 | 11:59 PM | 2359 | The full 24-row chart with the spoken form is shown under the converter. ## How to use this converter 1. Type the time in whichever form you have: 1430, 14:30, 14.30, 2:30 pm or just 2pm. 2. If the input has AM or PM, the headline result is the military time; otherwise it is the 12-hour time. Both are always listed below it, along with the 24-hour form with a colon and the spoken version. 3. Press "Use current time" to convert the time on your device's clock right now. 4. Scroll to the chart to look up any whole hour at a glance. ## Tips and common mistakes - **1200 is noon, not midnight.** Lunch at 1200; the day starts at 0000. - **12:xx AM becomes 00xx.** 12:30 AM is 0030, half an hour after midnight, not 1230. - **Keep the leading zero** in written military time: 0800, not 800. Without it, times can be misread in a log. - **Only the hour changes.** People sometimes "add 12" to the whole number: 2:30 PM is 1430, not 1442. - **Over 2359 is invalid.** A shift from 2200 to 0600 crosses midnight; to add up its length use the [hours calculator](https://methodcalculator.com/hours-calculator) or the [time calculator](https://methodcalculator.com/time-calculator), which both handle overnight ranges. ## **Frequently asked questions ** ### **Is 12:00 AM midnight or noon?** 12:00 AM is midnight, the start of the day, and 12:00 PM is noon. The 12-hour clock makes this genuinely confusing, which is one reason hospitals, airlines and the military avoid it. In military time midnight is 0000 and noon is 1200, with no ambiguity. ### **What is the difference between military time and the 24-hour clock?** They count hours the same way, from 0 to 23. Military time is written as four digits without a colon and always with a leading zero (0930), and it is spoken in a particular style ("zero nine thirty"). The civilian 24-hour clock used across Europe and on most phones writes the same time as 09:30 or 9:30. ### **How do I say military time out loud?** Read the hours and minutes as pairs of digits. Whole hours end in "hundred": 0800 is "zero eight hundred", 1300 is "thirteen hundred". Other times are read digit-group by digit-group: 0905 is "zero nine zero five" and 1645 is "sixteen forty-five". Many people add "hours" at the end, as in "sixteen forty-five hours". ### **Does military time use 2400?** Rarely. Midnight is normally written 0000 as the first minute of the new day. 2400 is used only to mark the end of a day, for example "the pass expires at 2400 Friday", and the next minute is 0001. This converter treats 2400 as midnight and shows it as 0000. ### **What does the Z in 1430Z mean?** A letter after a military time is a time-zone designator. Z stands for "Zulu", which is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), used in aviation, shipping and for coordinating units in different zones. 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