Military Time Chart — Printable, with Minutes and Zulu Time

Military time chart — every hour in 15-minute steps

Read across: 3 PM is 1500, 3:15 PM is 1515, 3:45 PM is 1545. For a minute not on the chart, keep the hour from the row and write the minutes as they are — 3:07 PM is 1507. Some schedules write 2400 for the midnight that ends a day; it is the same instant as 0000 of the next day.

Minutes to decimal hours (for timesheets)

Payroll that records military time usually pays in decimal hours: 8 hours 45 minutes is 8.75 hours. Divide the minutes by 60 — or read them off the table.

If your employer rounds, it is usually to the nearest quarter hour: US federal rules (29 CFR 785.48) allow rounding 1–7 minutes down and 8–14 minutes up, as long as it averages out over time. So a 0807 punch counts as 0800 and a 0808 punch as 0815. The timesheet calculator on this site adds up a whole shift or week.

How to say military time out loud

Whole hours are “hundred”, never “thousand”: 1500 is fifteen hundred. A leading zero is spoken (“zero six hundred”; civilians often say “oh six hundred”), and “hours” is optional at the end — “fourteen thirty hours”.

Military time zones (Zulu time)

The military names each whole-hour time zone with a letter and its phonetic-alphabet word. Z (Zulu) is UTC, which is why “Zulu time” means UTC in aviation, weather and the military; J (Juliett) means the observer’s local time. The letters stand for fixed offsets, so a zone that observes daylight saving time changes letter: US Eastern is R in winter (UTC−5) and Q in summer (UTC−4).