Lesson to Military Time - How To Read Military Time And Military Time Chart

Military Time

Complete Lesson to Military Time, How To Read Military Time and Convert Military Time - If you are a civilian, you don't have to worry about the time, because of the way you use to read and write time nearly same in every country. Civilians do not have the time annotations are almost the same in every country, with UTC as a standard addition or subtraction of time. But what about someone in the military? The military has a different code specifically how to read (tell) and write time, because in the military have a little difference when compared to civilians.

It is worth considering the world we are aware of the military need speed, accuracy, and firmness while on duty. So when you hear a military tell the time, maybe you need to break a moment to convert time into your standard. Unless you grew up in the military household, you are likely not familiar with the way the military tells time.

How do I read military time? In principle writing and spelling civilian and military time have a little difference, in military time usually do not know ':' when telling time.  However, the military operates off a 24-hour clock, beginning at midnight (which is 0000 hours). So, 2 AM is zero two hundred (0200) hours, 5 AM is zero five hundred (0500) hours, and so on up until 11 PM / 23:00 which is 2300 hours. After noon (1200 hours) to translate the regular time in the afternoon and evening, you simply add 12 hours to be within military standards. For instance, 2 PM is 1400 hours and 4 PM is 1600 hours. However, in some country like Indonesia civilian usually use 24 base of time hour.

Military Time Table (Chart)

12-hour am-pm clock	24-hour military time
12:00 midnight	0000
2:00 AM	0200
3:00 AM	0300
4:00 AM	0400
5:00 AM	0500
6:00 AM	0600
7:00 AM	0700
8:00 AM	0800
9:00 AM	0900
10:00 AM	1000
11:00 AM	1100
12:00 PM	1200
1:00 PM	1300
2:00 PM	1400
3:00 PM	1500
4:00 PM	1600
6:00 PM	1800
7:00 PM	1900
8:00 PM	2000
9:00 PM	2100
11:00 PM	2300

This is How to Read Military Time

When keeping hours in this fashion, the day starts at midnight and is written as 00:00. The last minute of the day is written as 23:59, or one minute before the next midnight. Sometimes you may see 00:00 written as 24:00. Both are acceptable. A usage example showing the 12 hour clock vs military time would be a time table showing 4:00 pm to 12:00 midnight. This would be written as 16:00 – 24:00. Another example highlighting the difference between the two would be to show that 11:25 am is written as 11:25 in military time but 3:20 pm is written as 15:20.

This method of keeping time is most commonly used by the military, government, public transportation, hospitals, meteorologists, astronomers, those employed in emergency services, and also with computers. When speaking in military time, 08:00 may be stated as “zero eight hundred” or “oh eight hundred”. Also, in the military, these time stamps are often written without the colon, so 08:52 would rather be written 0852.

And now, you know how military tell the time and you should know how to tell time to your friend in military. And also how to convert your time in military time.