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How do I change 15:15h into 12 hour time?

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That would be 3:15 p.m.

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Does 12:45 mean night or afternoon?

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It could mean either. If it says 12:45 a.m., that means it's night, 45 minutes after midnight. If it says 12:45 p.m., it is the afternoon, 45 minutes after noon.

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How can I convert 12-hour time to 24-hour time?

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To convert to 24-hour time, if the time is AM, do nothing, whereas if it is PM, add 12:00 hours.

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How do I convert a watch from AM to PM?

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That would depend on the model, but you would normally simply turn the dial/press the button to add 12 hours.

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How are digital and analog clocks different?

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Analog clocks are the ones with the second hand, minute hand and hour hand. They are the ones that you would usually see on walls. Digital clocks have the first number, a colon then another number like 12:15.

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14:10 time is afternoon time or night time?

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It is 2.10 p.m. or ten past two in the afternoon. Ten past two in the morning would be 02.10 or 02:10.

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Is 16:00 24 or 12 hours?

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16:00 is 4:00PM in 24 hour time. If you are asking if it is night or day, it's around pre-evening or later afternoon.

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If I come to my office at 15:58:00 hours and remain until 00:01:05, how would I calculate that?

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When dealing with elapsed time between AM/PM and vice versa, you just have to work your way to midnight or noon, depending on whether the start time is AM or PM. In this case it is PM, so let's work our way to midnight. Midnight in our case will be represented by 24:00:00 (which is technically 0:00:00, but you should get the idea). So let's subtract 15:58:00 from 24:00:05. You cannot subtract 0 minutes from 58 minutes, so you have to borrow from the hours column. When you borrow an hour, you add 60 to the minutes column in the minuend. so 24:00:05 becomes 23:59:65. Now let's subtract the times: 23:59:65 - 15:58:00 = 8:01:05, add the remaining minute to get 8:02:05, the correct answer.

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How do I read the minutes in 24 hour time?

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The minutes are read the same in a 24 or 12 hour clock. The only difference between the two clock styles is that you continue past 12 in the hours in the 24 hour style (13:00, 14:00, 15:00, and so on). The minute portion remains the same.

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How do I display 12:45 hours to the AM/PM 12 hour time system?

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12:45 Hours is in the first twelve hours and forty five minutes of the day, so it would be 12:45 AM. Simply put, the 24 hour clock starts at zero at the start of a new day, and counts in sets of 60 minutes for 24 hours. Upon the final minute 23:59:59 (HH:MM:SS), we come back to 00:00:00 and the start of a new day.

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What time is 00:20hrs?

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00:20 means 12:20 AM (shortly after midnight).

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What time is 12 AM in 24 hours?

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The hours reset at 12 AM, so it would be 00:00. It doesn't go to 24:00, as by then it's another day.

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Does 00:10 mean the next day?

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Yes. It means ten minutes past midnight.

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How do I subtract 05.45 from 20.45?

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Because the decimal portions after the decimal point are the same, you can avoid subtracting the decimal portions entirely. So, 20-5=15.

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What’s 3:00 AM in military time?

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03:00. (For AM times, just omit the AM unit. Between 12:00 and 12:59AM, change the hour to read 00. For PM, add 12 to the hour and omit the PM designation unit. For 12:00 and 12:59 PM, leave the hour alone and omit the designator.)

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What is 05:15 pm in 24 hour clock?

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17:15. (Add 12 to the pm, but keep the minutes).

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How do I change 15:10 to 12-hours time?

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15:10 is 3:10 p.m. (If the hour number is greater than 12, subtract 12 from it).

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What time is 1:20pm in 24-hour clock time?

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1:20 pm is the same thing as 13:20.

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What time is 06:40 in 12-hour clock?

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It's 6:40 AM. Everything earlier than 1200 is AM. "Everything from 1200 to 2400 is PM. (2400 -- "24-hundred hours" -- is also known as 0000 -- "zero-hundred hours." They both refer to midnight.)

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How do you convert the 24 hours to 12 hours in 00:45?

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00:00 is midnight, so 00:45 is 12:45 AM.

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How do you convert 8.30am to 24 hours?

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With all AM times, the numbers do not change. 8:30 AM is 0830 in 24-hour time. (The way to say that is "zero eight-thirty" or "oh eight-thirty.")

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