MILITARY TIME
In a laboratory setting, military time is commonly used to document time. The following
chart shows you regular time and what the military time conversion is. When reading
military time, there are some rules to follow:
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The first 2 digits refer to hours
The second 2 digits refer to minutes
If you need to report a time with seconds (as with timed tests), you will add the
seconds at the end of the military time following a colon.
Some professionals prefer to write or say hours after the time.
Example – 2:15am and 28 seconds is documented as – 0215:28 hours.
Verbally it would be stated as zero (or O) two hundred fifteen hours and
twenty-eight seconds.
Regular Time
Midnight
1:00am
2:00am
3:00am
4:00am
5:00am
6:00am
7:00am
8:00am
9:00am
10:00am
11:00am
Military Time
2400
0100
0200
0300
0400
0500
0600
0700
0800
0900
1000
1100
Regular Time
Noon
1:00pm
2:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm
5:00pm
6:00pm
7:00pm
8:00pm
9:00pm
10:00pm
11:00pm
Military Time
1200
1300
1400
1500
1600
1700
1800
1900
2000
2100
2200
2300
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