Your time now in military form, 6:03 AMEST. Zulu (UTC): 1103Z.
Convert military time
Military time chart
Every hour of the day with its quarter hours. Military time is the 24-hour clock written with four digits and no colon: the first two are the hour (00 to 23), the last two the minutes.
12 AM is midnight (0000) and 12 PM is noon (1200). Linked values have their own page with the spoken form and the time in other zones.
Minutes to decimal hours chart
Timesheets and payroll systems record time worked in decimal hours. To turn 7 h 40 min into decimal, look up 40 minutes: .67, so 7.67 hours. To go back, multiply the decimal by 60: .25 × 60 = 15 minutes.
Minutes
Decimal hours
0
.00
1
.02
2
.03
3
.05
4
.07
5
.08
6
.10
7
.12
8
.13
9
.15
10
.17
11
.18
12
.20
13
.22
14
.23
Minutes
Decimal hours
15
.25
16
.27
17
.28
18
.30
19
.32
20
.33
21
.35
22
.37
23
.38
24
.40
25
.42
26
.43
27
.45
28
.47
29
.48
Minutes
Decimal hours
30
.50
31
.52
32
.53
33
.55
34
.57
35
.58
36
.60
37
.62
38
.63
39
.65
40
.67
41
.68
42
.70
43
.72
44
.73
Minutes
Decimal hours
45
.75
46
.77
47
.78
48
.80
49
.82
50
.83
51
.85
52
.87
53
.88
54
.90
55
.92
56
.93
57
.95
58
.97
59
.98
Military time zones (A to Z) and the time in each now
NIST dates alphabetic nautical time zones to the 1920s. Z is UTC, and its phonetic name, Zulu, is why UTC is often called Zulu time. RFC 5322, the standard for email headers, gives the offsets below: A to I and K to M are 1 to 12 hours ahead of UTC, N to Y are 1 to 12 hours behind. M and Y are both 12 hours from UTC, on opposite sides of the date line. RFC 822 states that J is not used. The times update every minute.
Letter
Name
Offset
Time now
A
Alfa
UTC+1
2054
B
Bravo
UTC+2
2154
C
Charlie
UTC+3
2254
D
Delta
UTC+4
2354
E
Echo
UTC+5
0054
F
Foxtrot
UTC+6
0154
G
Golf
UTC+7
0254
H
Hotel
UTC+8
0354
I
India
UTC+9
0454
K
Kilo
UTC+10
0554
L
Lima
UTC+11
0654
M
Mike
UTC+12
0754
N
November
UTC−1
1854
O
Oscar
UTC−2
1754
P
Papa
UTC−3
1654
Q
Quebec
UTC−4
1554
R
Romeo
UTC−5
1454
S
Sierra
UTC−6
1354
T
Tango
UTC−7
1254
U
Uniform
UTC−8
1154
V
Victor
UTC−9
1054
W
Whiskey
UTC−10
0954
X
X-ray
UTC−11
0854
Y
Yankee
UTC−12
0754
Z
Zulu
UTC+0
1954
These are nominal offsets. Real places follow their own civil time, with daylight saving time, so use a city on the time zone converter for anything that is not UTC. One trap for programmers: the 1982 email standard, RFC 822, printed these signs the wrong way round, so RFC 5322 says a letter in an email date header should be treated as an unknown offset (-0000) unless you can confirm its meaning.
How military time works
Military time is the 24-hour clock without the colon. The day runs from 0000 (midnight) to 2359 (one minute before the next midnight). Hours before 10 keep their leading zero, so 7:05 AM is 0705, never 705. There is no AM or PM: 0700 is morning and 1900 is evening, which is the whole point. A time cannot be misread as the wrong half of the day.
Converting by hand
0000 to 0059: the 12 AM hour. 0030 is 12:30 AM, half an hour after midnight.
0100 to 1159: the same digits with AM. 0945 is 9:45 AM.
1200 to 1259: the 12 PM hour. 1200 is noon.
1300 to 2359: subtract 12 from the hours and add PM. 1730 is 5:30 PM. A frequent slip is subtracting 10 instead of 12 and reading 1900 as 9 PM; 1900 is 7 PM.
Midnight: 0000 or 2400?
NIST calls “12 a.m.” and “12 p.m.” ambiguous and offers the 24-hour clock as a way out: 0000 for midnight at the start of a date and 2400 for its end (see is 12 PM noon or midnight?). Clocks never show 2400; it is used in writing, for example a shift from 1600 to 2400.
Military time, 24-hour time and Zulu time
Military time and the 24-hour clock are the same clock written differently: 19:00 with a colon, 1900 without. Zulu time is something else: a time in UTC, marked with a Z. The FAA uses UTC for all operations, and the US Naval Observatory writes Universal Time on a 24-hour clock, sometimes with a Z appended, as in 0935Z. So 1900 is 7 PM wherever you are, while 1900Z is 7 PM in UTC, which is 2 PM in New York in winter (EST) and 3 PM in summer (EDT).
Saying it
Air traffic control speaks the four digits separately, in UTC: 1915 is “one niner one five”, and 0000 is “zero zero zero zero” (FAA JO 7110.65 §2-4-17 and Aeronautical Information Manual §4-2-12). On the ground there is no single official form; most people read the two pairs as numbers.
Midnight at the start of a day is 0000. NIST suggests 0000 for midnight at the beginning of a day and 2400 for the end of a day, which avoids the ambiguity of “12 a.m.”. So a shift that ends at midnight on Friday ends at 2400 Friday, the same instant as 0000 Saturday.
Is it 2400 or 0000?
Both name midnight. 0000 is the start of a day and 2400 its end; clocks and most software only ever show 0000, and there is no 2401. Use 2400 only when you need to say “the end of this day”, as in opening hours 0800–2400.
How do I convert military time to standard time?
For 0100 to 1159, add AM and put back the colon: 0945 is 9:45 AM. For 1200 to 1259, add PM: 1230 is 12:30 PM. For 1300 to 2359, subtract 12 from the hours and add PM: 1900 is 19 − 12 = 7:00 PM. For 0000 to 0059, the hour is 12 AM: 0030 is 12:30 AM.
How do I convert standard time to military time?
For AM times, write the hours with a leading zero and drop the colon: 8:00 AM is 0800 (12 AM becomes 00, so 12:15 AM is 0015). For PM times from 1:00 PM, add 12 to the hours: 5:00 PM is 1700 and 9:00 PM is 2100. 12 PM stays 1200.
What is 2:52 PM in military time?
1452. Add 12 to the hour of any PM time from 1 PM on: 2 + 12 = 14, then the minutes: 1452.
What is Zulu time?
Zulu is UTC. In the military zone letters, Z marks offset zero, and Zulu is the phonetic name of the letter Z; the FAA notes that “Zulu” may be used to denote UTC. A time written 1430Z is 14:30 UTC, whatever your local time zone.
How do you say military time out loud?
In aviation, the FAA has controllers say the four digits separately in UTC: 1915 is “one niner one five” (9 is “niner” on the radio). Outside aviation there is no single official spoken form; you will usually hear the two pairs read as numbers, as in “nineteen fifteen”.
What is military time in minutes (the “military minutes” chart)?
Timesheets and payroll often record minutes as decimal hours, which some people call military minutes: 15 minutes is .25 hours, 30 minutes is .50 and 45 minutes is .75. The chart on this page lists every minute; 7 h 40 min, for example, is 7.67 hours.