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How do I convert minutes into military time?

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The minutes stay the same as on a 12-hour system. You just won't use terms like a quarter after, a quarter to, half past, etc. So let's say it's 1:17 P.M. You would say it's 1317 (thirteen-seventeen) hours.

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How do I tell military time on a 24-hour clock?

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The military clock starts at midnight, known as 0000 hours. This is called "Zero Hundred Hours." Instead of having a twelve-hour clock that resets twice, in military time, you work with one clock that starts with 0000 at midnight and runs all the way until 2359 hours (11:59 p.m.) until it resets at 0000 hours at midnight again. Note that the military clock does not use the colon to separate the hours and minutes.

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Why is there a 0 in front of 0630?

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It simply shows that it is earlier in the day rather than later. In some sense, the zero is not necessary but it is just a formality that makes time keeping clear.

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In the video it says I can pronounce 0000 as twenty four hundred, while the passage above says it's zero hundred hours. Which is true?

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Both are true, depending on who you ask. Midnight is like an ace card, it can be either really high or really low, so 2400 or 0000. Many times people use the first to denote a day ending, and the second to denote a day beginning. For example, Thursday ended at 2400, but Friday begins at 0000. They mean the same, and either use is just fine.

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What is the military time equivalent of 15 minutes past midnight?

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Since midnight is denoted as 0000, simply add 15. This would give a result of 0015.

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How do I write 19 and a half hours?

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Write it as 1930.

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Is 1:45 pm equal to 13:45 in military time?

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No, 1:45 pm is equal to 1345 in military time (note the absence of the colon).

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Why do people say 24-hour time is the same thing as military time, despite the two being different in terms of how they're written and pronounced?

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Because the basic idea and function is the same. Military time works exactly the same as 24-hour time (as opposed to 12-hour time), and the numbers/times are the same, there's just no colon and it's pronounced a little differently out loud.

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How do people make telling military time look so easy?

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Like anything else repeated often enough, it becomes second nature. If you made a point of using military time, it would probably become automatic for you, too.

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Are 60 minutes the same in normal and military time?

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Yes, but once you hit sixty, it becomes the new hour. For example, 14:00 would not be "thirteen sixty hours."

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How would I say 8 PM in military time?

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Military time is simply the number of the hour. Rather than after 12:00 going back to 1:00, you would go from 12:00 to 13:00. Thus, 8 PM would be 20:00.

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The clock in my car goes from regular time to military time. I did not do this, it does it on it's own. What do I do?

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You can take it to a mechanic if there is no answer in your car's manual.

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How do I change the time on a car from normal to military, or the opposite?

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Most cars don't have that setting.

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What is the meaning of 0325?

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0325 would mean that it is 3:25 a.m., or 25 minutes past 3 o'clock in the morning. It would be read "zero three twenty-five hours."

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How would you say 10:05 am? I know it would be 1005 but how would you say it? ten-zero-five? ten-oh-five? Ten-five?

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Ten-zero-five and ten-oh-five are both fine. Ten-hundred-five might be going overboard.

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What would 8:45 be in military time ?

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If in the morning, it will be 0845. If in the evening, it would be 2045. When calculating military time in the evening, just add 12 to the time. 12 + 8 = 20, so 8:45 will be 2045.

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I punched out at ten till ten AM. How do I write my total hours on the time sheet?

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0950 hours because 10am is 1000 hours. Subtract 10 min and you get 0950 hours or 9:50am.

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How would I say 11:52 AM?

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11:52 in military time would just be 11:52. You can go to this site: militarytimechart.com, where it teaches you how to read military time and it has a chart to tell you the times.

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A student works 2hrs 4pm-6pm what does this become?

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The student would work from 1600 to 1800. A quick cheat sheet: 1:00 pm = 1300, 2:00 pm = 1400, 3:00pm = 1500, 4:00 pm = 1600, 5:00 pm = 1700, 6:00 pm = 1800, 7:00pm = 1900, 8:00 pm = 2000, 9:00 pm = 2100, 10:00 pm = 2200, 11:00pm = 2300, and finally, midnight is 0000.

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If the time was 8pm therefore 2000 in military time would you say two thousand hours or twenty hundred hours?

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You would say this as 20 hundred.

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