2000
20 hundred hours is 8:00 PM
HoursThe 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. |
MinutesThe 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 zero minutes. |
PronunciationNumbers are often exaggerated so they can be heard better over a crackling radio. |
| For example, nine may be pronounced niner. |
Time zoneIf there is a letter after the numbers, that tells the time zone.I found this website very helpful: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/military-time.html |
Here are some example times spoken in different ways, getting more complicated towards the bottom of the list.
| Australian time spoken | AM/PM | 24-hour clock | Military time | Military time spoken | Military time spoken casually |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| midnight | 12 am | 00:00 | 0000 | zero hundred hours | If ending the day, twenty-four hundred hours |
| two o'clock in the morning | 2 am | 02:00 | 0200 | zero two hundred hours | stupid o'clock! |
| six o'clock in the morning | 6 am | 06:00 | 0600 | zero six hundred hours | oh six hundred |
| ten o'clock in the morning | 10 am | 10:00 | 1000 | ten hundred hours (not zero ten hundred as there is no leading zero) | ten hundred |
| noon | 12 pm | 12:00 | 1200 | twelve hundred hours | twelve hundred |
| six o'clock in the evening | 6 pm | 18:00 | 1800 | eighteen hundred hours | eighteen hundred |
| nine o'clock at night | 9 pm | 21:00 | 2100 | twenty-one hundred hours | twenty-one hundred |
| a quarter past nine at night | 9:15 pm | 21:15 | 2115 | twenty-one fifteen hours | twenty-one one-fife |
| half past nine at night | 9:30 pm | 21:30 | 2130 | twenty-one thirty hours | twenty-one tree-zero |
| a quarter to ten at night | 9:45 pm | 21:45 | 2145 | twenty-one forty-five hours | twenty-one fower-fife |
| ten to ten at night | 9:50 pm | 21:50 | 21:50 | twenty-one fifty hours | twenty-one fife-zero |