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How military time works

2000

20 hundred hours is 8:00 PM

The first 2 digits are the hour of a 24-hour day.

This means if it is after 12 noon, you need to subtract 12 hours to get the PM time.

The second 2 digits are the number of minutes past the hour.

Where it is exactly on the hour, hundred is spoken to denote 00, meaning no minutes.

Numbers are often exaggerated so they can be heard better over a crackling radio.

For example, nine may be pronounced niner.

If there is a letter after the numbers, that tells the time zone.

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Here are some example times spoken in different ways, getting more complicated towards the bottom of the list.

Australian time			24-hour clock	Military time	Military time spoken	Alternative military time spoken
midnight	12 am	12:00AM	00:00	0000	zero hundred hours	twenty-four hundred hours if ending the day
two o'clock in the morning	2 am	2:00AM	02:00	0200	zero two hundred hours	maybe stupid o'clock!
six o'clock in the morning	6 am	6:00AM	06:00	0600	zero six hundred hours	oh six hundred
ten o'clock in the morning	10 am	10:00AM	10:00	1000	ten hundred hours	ten hundred (not zero ten hundred as there is no leading zero)
noon	12 pm	12:00PM	12:00	1200	twelve hundred hours	twelve hundred
six o'clock in the evening	6 pm	6:00PM	18:00	1800	eighteen hundred hours	eighteen hundred
nine o'clock at night	9 pm	9:00PM	21:00	2100	twenty-one hundred hours	twenty-one hundred
a quarter past nine at night	9:15 pm	9:15PM	21:15	2115	twenty-one fifteen hours	twenty-one one-five
half past nine at night	9:30 pm	9:30PM	21:30	2130	twenty-one thirty hours	twenty-one three-zero
a quarter to ten at night	9:45 pm	9:45PM	21:45	2145	twenty-one forty-five hours	twenty-one fower-five
ten to eleven at night	9:50 pm	9:50PM	21:50	2150	twenty-one fifty hours	twenty-one fife-zero