militarytime.now — Military Time Now, Converter & Chart

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Military Time Converter Convert Convert 12-hour AM/PM time to military time and back, instantly and in both directions. Military Time Chart Chart Every hour from 0000 to 2359 with its civilian equivalent and spoken form — the current hour highlighted. Zulu Time Zulu The current Zulu time, the NATO zone letters, and how your local time maps onto them. Printable Military Time Card Print A compact conversion card you can print, covering every hour and the quarter-hour minutes. Military Time Glossary Glossary The vocabulary around 24-hour time: Zulu, local, hundred hours, the zone letters and more.

militarytime.now is a plain reference for the 24-hour clock. See military time now with its civilian equivalent and spoken form, convert in either direction with the military time converter, check any hour on the military time chart, or read Zulu time when a shared reference across zones is what you need. Everything runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored.

Why military time exists

Counting the hours straight through from 00 to 23 means no time can be read two ways. A shift starting at 1900 cannot be mistaken for one starting at 0700, which is exactly why the format spread from the armed forces into aviation, emergency medicine, rail timetables and computing. Our guides cover reading it, saying it, converting it and the places it is used.

Learn it once, keep it

The morning half needs no conversion at all — 0800 is simply 8 AM with a leading zero. The afternoon needs one subtraction, and two anchors (1800 is 6 PM, 2000 is 8 PM) carry most of the rest. Within a week or two of using the chart, most people stop needing it.

From our guides

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Learning military time The 24-Hour Clock by Country: Who Uses It and Who Does Not A tour of how the world tells the time: which countries run civil life on 24 hours, where 12-hour speech persists, and why written and spoken usage so often disagree. 6 min read Charts & conversion Convert AM PM to Military Time: The Rule and Two Exceptions One rule, two exceptions and a handful of checks: how to turn any AM or PM time into four digits reliably, in your head, without reaching for a conversion table. 5 min read Learning military time How to Read Military Time: The Four Digits Explained A plain guide to reading 24-hour time: what each of the four digits means, why the colon disappears, how the hours from 13 to 23 map onto the afternoon, and what 0800 and 2000 stand for. 6 min read Learning military time How to Say Military Time Out Loud, Correctly The spoken side of the 24-hour clock: zero versus oh, how minutes are voiced, when the word hours belongs, and how a NATO phonetic letter turns a time into a time zone. 5 min read Learning military time Is Midnight 0000 or 2400? Both, and Here Is the Difference Midnight has two valid four-digit forms and they mean subtly different things. What each notation says about the date, which one the US military prefers, and how to close a period without ambiguity. 6 min read Charts & conversion Military Time Chart: Every Hour From 0000 to 2359 The full 0000 to 2359 conversion table walked through hour by hour, with the shortcuts that let you stop looking it up and the situations where a printed copy still beats a screen. 5 min read Learning military time Military Time in Nursing and EMS: Charting in 24 Hours Why hospitals and ambulance services chart in 24-hour time: the medication errors it removes, how handover depends on it, and the charting habits that keep a record defensible. 5 min read Charts & conversion Military Time Minutes: Why 1750 Is Not 17.5 Hours Minutes in the 24-hour clock run 00 to 59 and never become tenths of an hour. The difference from payroll decimal hours, the full conversion table, and how to work out a shift correctly. 6 min read

Frequently asked questions

Is militarytime.now free?

Yes — free, no signup, no download, no adverts in the way of the clock.

What is military time?

Military time is the 24-hour clock written as four digits, from 0000 at midnight to 2359. Because each hour has a unique number, there is no need for AM or PM.

How do I convert 1800 to normal time?

Subtract 12 from the hour: 18 − 12 = 6, so 1800 is 6:00 PM. Any hour of 13 or above converts the same way.

Does the site work on a phone?

Yes — every clock, converter and chart works in any modern browser on any device.

Is my data collected?

No. The clocks read your device's own time and everything is calculated locally; nothing is sent anywhere.