0000 in military time is 12:00 AM, which is midnight.
0000 is midnight, the first minute of the day.
0000 in regular time
12:00 AM
Said out loud: zero hundred hours.
- Military time
- 0000
- 24-hour clock
- 00:00
- Minutes after midnight
- 0
- Minutes until midnight
- 1,440
0000 is 12:00 AM because the 00 hour is the 12 o'clock hour after midnight.
- Read the first two digits of 0000 as the hour: 00.
- Change 00 to 12, because the hour after midnight is the 12 o'clock hour.
- Put the minutes, 00, after the hour and add AM: 12:00 AM.
The same time on a clock and on the day
On this page
0000 = 12:00 AM
00 becomes 12. The inner 12 sits beside the outer 00.
Midnight to noon
- 00
- 01
- 02
- 03
- 04
- 05
- 06
- 07
- 08
- 09
- 10
- 11
Noon to midnight
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
12 AM in military time is 0000.
- Read the hour of 12 AM: 12.
- Change 12 to 00, because 12 AM is the hour after midnight.
- Write the hour with two digits and the minutes, 00, after it with no colon: 0000.
Say 0000 out loud as "zero hundred hours".
The 00 hour is spoken as "zero hundred", and "hours" follows.
When it is 0000 in one US time zone, the other three clocks read like this.
| ZoneWhen it is 0000 in | ET | CT | MT | PT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ETEastern Time | 12:00 AM | 11:00 PMday before | 10:00 PMday before | 9:00 PMday before |
| CTCentral Time | 1:00 AM | 12:00 AM | 11:00 PMday before | 10:00 PMday before |
| MTMountain Time | 2:00 AM | 1:00 AM | 12:00 AM | 11:00 PMday before |
| PTPacific Time | 3:00 AM | 2:00 AM | 1:00 AM | 12:00 AM |
ET is Eastern Time, CT is Central Time, MT is Mountain Time, PT is Pacific Time.
The times around 0000 each have a page of their own.
| Military time | Regular time | Said out loud |
|---|---|---|
| 2200 | 10:00 PM | twenty-two hundred hours |
| 2300 | 11:00 PM | twenty-three hundred hours |
| 0000 | 12:00 AM | zero hundred hours |
| 0100 | 1:00 AM | zero one hundred hours |
| 0200 | 2:00 AM | zero two hundred hours |
The military time chart lists all 24 hours on one page, and the military time converter turns any other time into military time as you type. Take a lunch break off a shift in the hours calculator, or compare more zones in the time zone converter.
Here are five questions about 0000, answered.
- What is 0000 in regular time?
- 0000 is 12:00 AM, midnight at the start of the day. The 00 hour is the 12 o'clock hour after midnight, so 00 becomes 12 and AM follows, and the minutes stay 00.
- What is 12 AM in military time?
- 12 AM is 0000. The hour after midnight is written 00 in military time, with the minutes after it, 00.
- How do you say 0000 in military time?
- Say "zero hundred hours". The 00 hour is spoken as "zero hundred", and "hours" follows.
- Is 0000 AM or PM?
- AM. 0000 is the first minute of the day, and every military time from 0000 to 1159 is before noon.
- What is 0000 Eastern Time in Pacific Time?
- 0000 Eastern Time is 9:00 PM (day before) Pacific Time, three hours earlier on the clock. The table above has all four zones.
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