How tell military time

military time is an alternate way of telling the time, primarily used by the military, emergency workers, and transportation professionals. It is a 24-hour clock system where time is expressed as a number of hours from 0000 (midnight) to 2359 (11:59 PM). Knowing how to tell Military Time can be useful in many ways, whether you're in a professional or social setting. Here's how to tell military time:

The first thing to understand about military time is that it is based off a 24-hour clock system. While standard 12-hour clocks indicate morning and evening hours by using A.M and P.M., military time puts all 24 hours into one day, beginning at midnight (0000) and running until 11:59 PM (2359).

Military time expresses the hour by two digits and follows this format: Hours (00 - 23) then Minutes – 00 - 59. For instance, 1 o'clock standard time translates to 0100 in military talk. 4 p.m translates to 1600 in Military Time. To tell the minutes past the hour in Military Time when using the 12-hour clock system, you would normally say "oh four" for four minutes past the hour or "twenty twenty" for twenty minutes past the hour; with Military Time you just add the two digits in front of the minutes giving you 0420 for four minutes past twenty and 1620 for sixteen minutes past twenty on a 24-hour clock system basis.

Normally noon would be indicated on a 12-hour clock as 12:00 P.M., with military time we use 1200 instead; midnight would be 0000 instead of 12:00 A.M., so it looks like this 1200 – 0000 across any 24-hour period on a standard everyday watch or clock face.

Another unique feature of military time is that there are no designations for A.M or P.M.; anything after noon until midnight are known as "ante meridiem" A or M (0-12 A/M) and anything from midnight until noon is referred to as "post meridiem" P or M (1 -11 P/M). So if you have to purchase tickets for a concert starting at 2009hrs or 9 pm in ordinary terms then simply drop the colon and just say 2009 in your phone booking request!