Military Time Converter And Time Card Calculator

How To Enter Military Time

Military time uses a 24-hour clock. The day runs from 0000 at midnight to 2359 one minute before the next midnight. There is no AM or PM.

Type four digits for a time, with or without a colon. 0700, 07:00 and 700 all mean 7 AM, and 1530 means 3:30 PM. The calculator also accepts times like 8:30a if you prefer them.

The time card shows every start, end and lunch time in military format while you are on this page. Your saved times are the same, so they show as 12-hour times on the other calculators.

Military Time Converter Chart: 24-Hour To Standard Time

For hours from 1 AM to noon, the digits match the 12-hour clock with a leading zero. After noon, add 12 to the hour. So 1 PM is 1300 and 6 PM is 1800.

The table below gives every hour, so you can read a schedule at a glance.

Midnight is 0000 at the start of a day. Some schedules write the end of a day as 2400, which is the same moment.

How To Convert Military Time To Standard Time

1. If the hour is 12 or less, keep it. 0930 is 9:30 AM, and 1200 is 12:00 PM.
2. If the hour is 13 or more, subtract 12 and add PM. 1745 is 5:45 PM.
3. Midnight is 0000, which is 12:00 AM. Keep the last two digits as the minutes.
4. To go from standard time to military time, add 12 to any PM hour. 4:15 PM is 1615.

A Worked Example: 0700 To 1530

A shift from 0700 to 1530 runs from 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM. That is 8 h 30 m at work. Take off a 30 minute unpaid lunch and the paid time is 8 h, or 8.00 decimal hours.

To work it out by hand, subtract the start from the end as four digit times. 1530 minus 0700 is 8 hours 30 minutes. If the minutes of the end are smaller than the minutes of the start, borrow an hour and add 60.

Five days of 0600 to 1430 with a 30 minute lunch is 40 h, or 40.00 decimal hours. At $20.00 an hour that pays $800.00.

Shifts That Run Past Midnight

A night shift starts on one day and ends on the next. From 2200 to 0630, the end time is smaller than the start time, so the calculator knows the shift crosses midnight. It adds 24 hours to the end, so the shift is 8 h 30 m at work, and 8 h after a 30 minute break.

A 12 hour shift from 1900 to 0700 is 12 h at work, and 11 h 30 m with a 30 minute break.

The hours are counted on the day the shift started. If your employer counts them on the day they ended, the weekly total can differ around the start of the workweek. Check your week start in Settings.

Using The Military Time Card

1. Enter each start and end time in four digits, for example 0800 and 1700.
2. Type your unpaid break in minutes. Enter 0 if there was none.
3. Add your hourly rate in Settings to see gross pay.
4. Check the working line under each day. It shows the times, the break and the paid hours in plain words.
5. Download the PDF or print the card when you need a copy.

If you want 12-hour times instead, use the time card calculator.

Where Military Time Is Used

Military time is standard in the armed forces, and it is also used by hospitals, emergency services, airlines and rail. Anywhere that has shifts around the clock, a 24-hour clock avoids the confusion between 7 AM and 7 PM.

It is also the format in many time clock systems and logs. Pasting times from one of those into this calculator works, because it reads four digit times directly.

Common Mistakes With Military Time

The most common one is a time with minutes over 59, such as 0875. The calculator marks it as invalid. The second is mixing up midnight. 0000 is the start of the day and 1200 is noon.

Another is to forget to add 12 when you convert an afternoon time. 4:15 PM is 1615, not 0415. If a shift looks too long or too short by 12 hours, look at that first.

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