This online Military Time Converter is a handy tool to convert standard time (12 hour time format) to the military time (24 hour time format) and vice versa. Simply enter the time you want to convert into the appropriate fields and the equivalent in another time format will automatically calculate for you.
Military time conversion
Military time is a time format based on a 24 hour clock instead of using two groups of 12 hours each used in the standard time format. In the US, where standard time is common, the time of day is customarily given almost exclusively using the 12-hour clock notation, which counts the hours of the day as 12, 1, …, 11 with suffixes a.m. and p.m.
The 24-hour clock is commonly used there only in some specialist areas like military, where the ambiguities of the 12-hour notation are deemed too inconvenient, cumbersome, or dangerous. Military time leaves no room for error. This is the reason why it is used for all major emergency services in the U.S. and Canada.
Military time is sequential in nature and the hours go from 00 to 23 (24 is considered the same as 00 of the next day). The 12 hour time format does not distinguish clearly between the end of a day and the beginning of the other day.
Military time format is different than the regular 24 hour format as it does not use colons. One-digit hour values are written with leading zero. And also, it is pronounced differently. The military time is pronounced as a four digit number:
• 0700 – Zero Seven Hundred Hours
• 1030 – Ten Thirty Hours
• 2200 – Twenty Two Hundred Hours.
Our bidirectional Military Time Converter (also known as army time converter) does use colons so it can be considered as a regular 24 hour clock converter.
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