In the 24-hour format, midnight has two designations, 0000 and 2400 : If your day begins at midnight, you use 0000 in military time, pronounced “zero hundred hours.” If your day ends at midnight, you end your day at 2400 , pronounced “24 hundred hours.”

How do you say 0001 in military time?

Speaking military time.

For example: 0001 (12:01am): “zero zero zero one” 0215 (2:15am): “zero two fifteen” 1545 (3:45pm): “fifteen forty-five”

Is it midnight 0000 or 2400?

The question sometimes arises whether midnight is written as 2400 or 0000. Military and emergency services personnel refer to midnight both ways. However, digital watches and clocks that display time in a 24-hour format and computer equipment treat midnight as the start of a new day and express it as 0000.

Military Time 0040 is: 12:40 AM using 12-hour clock notation, 00:40 using 24-hour clock notation. See, what time is in the other military time zones at 0040Z (Zulu Time Zone) .

How do you say 0430 in military time?

Military Time 0430 is: 04:30 AM using 12-hour clock notation, 04:30 using 24-hour clock notation. See, what time is in the other military time zones at 0430Z (Zulu Time Zone) .

Military Time 1510 is: 03:10 PM using 12-hour clock notation, 15:10 using 24-hour clock notation.

Why 24-hour clock is better?

The reason airlines, public transit and the armed forces use 24-hour “military” time is to avoid confusion between a.m. and p.m. hours. You can take the same approach with your cell phone’s clock settings to avoid accidentally setting your morning alarm at an afternoon hour.

Is there such a time as 0000?

Midnight (12:00 a.m.) — 0000 hrs. 1:00 a.m. — 0100 hrs.

In the 24-hour format, midnight has two designations, 0000 and 2400 :
If your day begins at midnight, you use 0000 in military time, pronounced “zero hundred hours.”If your day ends at midnight, you end your day at 2400 , pronounced “24 hundred hours.”

How do you say 2000 hours in military time?

“Two zero hundred” formally, “Twenty hundred” informally. But I would write it as 2000, not 20:00, so I guess I would be more likely to read the version with the colon as twenty hundred. Never “twenty hundred hours”!

How do you read 24-hour time out loud?

In 24-hour notation you never say o’clock. Say the value of the hours part first, then the minutes. If the hours or minutes are less than 10, say Oh (for zero) first. Non-military people don’t usually say the “Oh” before hours, especially if the minutes are non-zero.

What time is one minute after midnight?

As we normally count hours numerically adding 1 to the previous hour and as in a normal sequence 12 comes after 11 if it is then 11pm midnight must be 12pm and at the same time 00.00am so 1 minute past midnight is 00.01am the same applies to noon 11am being followed by 12am and at the same time being 00.00pm.

Just like a 12-hour digital clock, military time is always displayed in four digits. The first two digits represent the hour and the last two digits represent the minutes. 0000 (said “zero-hundred”) is midnight, and 1200 (said “twelve-hundred”) is noon.