Expert: Cynthia Bedell - 9/28/2008

Question
Hi Cynthia

Well my question is not excatly realted to career but Military useage.

I wnat to know ow to speak the Military time correctly

eg: 22:35 = what? do we say its 22 35 hundered hours ?

what about 0001 (12:01am) or  1005 ? (ten o five hundered hours ? )

Hope you got my point.

Its one thing to understand the Military time but another on how to speak it correctly

Need you assistance on this issue any help or direction to links with answer to this specific question would be much appriciated.

Ps: for 12am do you use 2400 or 0000 in normal military time

Thanks

Answer
Dear dimitrz --

In military time (24 hour clock) we only use "hundred" for the top of the hour.

So 8 PM equals 2000 which would be '20 hundred hours' when spoken.

To say 2235 in military time it would be "twenty-two thirty-five hours" or simply "twenty-two thirty-five."

Noon is 12 hundred hours, and midnight is "O" hundred hours.

We would say "ten oh five" for 1005.

I hope this helps.

Good luck to you.