Military Time

* Updated January 2016

Military Time Notes Civilian time uses the numbers 1 to 12 to identify each of the 24 hours in a day. In military time, the hours are numbered from 00 to 24. Regular and military time both use minutes and seconds in exactly the same way. (For example 1:05PM would be 1305 hours.) When converting from regular to military time and vice versa, the minutes and seconds do not change. Midnight is written as 2400 or 0000.
Military Time Zones ZULU TIME – GREENWICH MEAN TIME (GMT) – UNIVERSAL TIME (UT) For the U.S. Military, operations are conducted around the world in many different time zones. Often, single and joint operations are conducted across different time zones. For example, an operation in Iraq may be planned and directed in Florida, with aircraft launched from Italy and the Persian Gulf. Because of this, the military uses Zulu Time as a base reference, and the phonetic alphabet to designate other military time zones. (Zulu Time is also known as Greenwich Mean Time and Universal Time.) Zulu Time is the time in Greenwich, England. The chart below shows Zulu Time in relation to other military time zones. For example, if it were 1100 hours Zulu Time, then in New York City it would be 0600 hours Romeo Time (1100 – 5 = 0600). In Moscow it would be 1400 hours Charlie Time (1100 + 3 = 1400).

Stuttgart	Baghdad	Manila	Seoul/Tokyo


Hawaii	California	Wash, D.C.	GMT (Zulu)

Civilian Time	Military Time
Midnight (12:00 AM)	0000 hrs
1:00 AM	0100 hrs
2:00 AM	0200 hrs
3:00 AM	0300 hrs
4:00 AM	0400 hrs
5:00 AM	0500 hrs
6:00 AM	0600 hrs
7:00 AM	0700 hrs
8:00 AM	0800 hrs
9:00 AM	0900 hrs
10:00 AM	1000 hrs
11:00 AM	1100 hrs
12:00 PM	1200 hrs
1:00 PM	1300 hrs
2:00 PM	1400 hrs
3:00 PM	1500 hrs
4:00 PM	1600 hrs
5:00 PM	1700 hrs
6:00 PM	1800 hrs
7:00 PM	1900 hrs
8:00 PM	2000 hrs
9:00 PM	2100 hrs
10:00 PM	2200 hrs
11:00 PM	2300 hrs

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Letter		City	GMT Offset
A	Alpha	Paris	GMT +1
B	Bravo	Athens	GMT +2
C	Charlie	Moscow	GMT +3
D	Delta	Kabul	GMT +4
E	Echo	New Delhi	GMT +5
F	Foxtrot	Rangoon	GMT +6
G	Golf	Bangkok	GMT +7
H	Hotel	Beijing	GMT +8
I	India	Tokyo	GMT +9
K	Kilo	Brisbane	GMT +10
L	Lima	Sydney	GMT +11
M	Mike	Kamchatka	GMT +12
N	November	Azores	GMT -1
O	Oscar	Rio De Janeiro	GMT -2
P	Papa	Buenos Aires	GMT -3
Q	Quebec	Halifax	GMT -4
R	Romeo	New York	GMT -5
S	Sierra	Chicago	GMT -6
T	Tango	Denver	GMT -7
U	Uniform	Los Angeles	GMT -8
V	Victor	Anchorage	GMT -9
W	Whiskey	Hawaii	GMT -10
X	X-Ray	Wellington	GMT -11
Y	Yankee	Fiji	GMT -12
Z	Zulu	Greenwich	GMT

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