Q&A for How to Tell Military Time

The minutes stay the same as on a 12-hour system. You just won't use terms like a quarter after, a quarter to, half past, etc. So let's say it's 1:17 P.M. You would say it's 1317 (thirteen-seventeen) hours.

The military clock starts at midnight, known as 0000 hours. This is called "Zero Hundred Hours." Instead of having a twelve-hour clock that resets twice, in military time, you work with one clock that starts with 0000 at midnight and runs all the way until 2359 hours (11:59 p.m.) until it resets at 0000 hours at midnight again. Note that the military clock does not use the colon to separate the hours and minutes.

It simply shows that it is earlier in the day rather than later. In some sense, the zero is not necessary but it is just a formality that makes time keeping clear.

Both are true, depending on who you ask. Midnight is like an ace card, it can be either really high or really low, so 2400 or 0000. Many times people use the first to denote a day ending, and the second to denote a day beginning. For example, Thursday ended at 2400, but Friday begins at 0000. They mean the same, and either use is just fine.

Since midnight is denoted as 0000, simply add 15. This would give a result of 0015.

Write it as 1930.

No, 1:45 pm is equal to 1345 in military time (note the absence of the colon).

Because the basic idea and function is the same. Military time works exactly the same as 24-hour time (as opposed to 12-hour time), and the numbers/times are the same, there's just no colon and it's pronounced a little differently out loud.

Like anything else repeated often enough, it becomes second nature. If you made a point of using military time, it would probably become automatic for you, too.

Yes, but once you hit sixty, it becomes the new hour. For example, 14:00 would not be "thirteen sixty hours."

Military time is simply the number of the hour. Rather than after 12:00 going back to 1:00, you would go from 12:00 to 13:00. Thus, 8 PM would be 20:00.

You can take it to a mechanic if there is no answer in your car's manual.

Most cars don't have that setting.

0325 would mean that it is 3:25 a.m., or 25 minutes past 3 o'clock in the morning. It would be read "zero three twenty-five hours."

Ten-zero-five and ten-oh-five are both fine. Ten-hundred-five might be going overboard.

If in the morning, it will be 0845. If in the evening, it would be 2045. When calculating military time in the evening, just add 12 to the time. 12 + 8 = 20, so 8:45 will be 2045.

0950 hours because 10am is 1000 hours. Subtract 10 min and you get 0950 hours or 9:50am.

11:52 in military time would just be 11:52. You can go to this site: militarytimechart.com, where it teaches you how to read military time and it has a chart to tell you the times.

The student would work from 1600 to 1800. A quick cheat sheet: 1:00 pm = 1300, 2:00 pm = 1400, 3:00pm = 1500, 4:00 pm = 1600, 5:00 pm = 1700, 6:00 pm = 1800, 7:00pm = 1900, 8:00 pm = 2000, 9:00 pm = 2100, 10:00 pm = 2200, 11:00pm = 2300, and finally, midnight is 0000.

You would say this as 20 hundred.