How do you say 0000 in military time?

0000 is spoken as "zero hundred hours". On-the-hour military times use "hundred" — never "o'clock" — and leading zeros are read out as "zero" (informally "oh"). With minutes you read the pairs: 0030 would be "zero thirty hours".

Is 0000 military time AM or PM?

0000 military time is 12:00 AM, which is midnight — the boundary case people most often mix up. The rule: military hours 0000–1159 are AM, and 1200–2359 are PM.

How do I convert 0000 military time to standard time?

To convert 0000, treat the zero hour as 12 AM: 0000 is 12:00 AM, midnight, and 0030 would be 12:30 AM. No subtraction is needed below 1200. Minutes never change in the conversion, only the hour and the AM/PM marker.

0000 Military Time

What is 0000 military time in standard time? The instant answer is below, along with how to say it out loud, the conversion rule, and the military times around it. For any other time, use the military time converter.

0000 military time is

12:00 AM(midnight)

Spoken: “zero hundred hours”

Converting 0000 to standard time

0000 is the midnight boundary: the zero hour is written as 12 AM in standard time, so 0000 is 12:00 AM and 0030 is 12:30 AM. You may also see 2400 — it marks the same moment as the end of the previous day, but schedules prefer 0000.

Military times near 0000

Military time	Standard time	Spoken as
2100	9:00 PM	twenty-one hundred hours
2200	10:00 PM	twenty-two hundred hours
2300	11:00 PM	twenty-three hundred hours
0000	12:00 AM (midnight)	zero hundred hours
0100	1:00 AM	zero one hundred hours
0200	2:00 AM	zero two hundred hours
0300	3:00 AM	zero three hundred hours

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