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You can always get yourself a simple military time chart, such as the one below, to reference until writing military time becomes second nature for you. The table below shows how we read military time from noon to 2400 hours. The table below shows how we read military time from midnight to 1100 hours. Military time is a system of keeping time that splits a day into 24 hours, beginning at midnight and ending at midnight. The interval notation most often used across the globe is military time. A trick in trying to convert military time into regular time and vice versa includes doing a little bit of math in your head but works quickly. For those still learning the 24-clock system, a simple way to translate afternoon and evening hours into civilian time is to subtract 12. For example, for 2000 hours, subtract 12 from 20 to get 8 p.m. This part of the military time system is a little tricky for those of us who are used to the 12-hour clock (AM/PM). Military time uses the 24-hour clock, where the hours of the day are numbered from zero to 23, starting with 00 at midnight. Military Time is sequential in nature and the hours go from 00 to 23. The 12 hour time format does not distinguish clearly between the end of a day and the beginning of the other. In everyday applications the commonly used separator between hours and minutes is a colon (e.g., computers show the time in the 24-hour system in most countries). In military applications, the separator is omitted.
