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0200=2:00 AM

zero two hundred

How to read 0200

Military time writes every hour of the day as a two-digit number from 00 to 23, then appends the minutes as two more digits. 0200 therefore means 02 hours and 00 minutes past midnight — 2:00 AM on a 12-hour clock.

Read aloud it becomes "zero two hundred". A zero minutes value is spoken as "hundred", which is why whole hours end in "hundred"; minutes below ten take an "oh" in front, as in "seventeen oh five" for 1705.

Twelve-hour clocks split the day at noon. Hours 00 through 11 are AM, hours 12 through 23 are PM, and the two boundary hours are the ones people get wrong: 0000 is 12:00 AM and 1200 is 12:00 PM. 0200 sits on the AM side of that line, which is why it converts to 2:00 AM.

2:00 AM in military time

Going the other way is the same arithmetic in reverse. Take 2 and AM, drop the suffix, and add 12 to any PM hour — then watch the two twelve-o’clock cases, where 12 AM becomes 00 and 12 PM stays 12. 2:00 AM becomes 0200.

Times near 0200

Military time around 0200

MilitaryStandardSpoken
000012:00 AMzero hundred
002012:20 AMzero twenty
003012:30 AMzero thirty
01001:00 AMzero one hundred
01301:30 AMzero one thirty
02002:00 AMzero two hundred
02302:30 AMzero two thirty
03003:00 AMzero three hundred
03303:30 AMzero three thirty
04004:00 AMzero four hundred

Frequently asked questions

What is 0200 in military time?
0200 is 2:00 AM. Military time runs from 0000 to 2359, so 0200 means 02 hours and 00 minutes after midnight.
How do you say 0200 out loud?
Say it as "zero two hundred". Whole hours end in "hundred", and minutes below ten take an "oh" in front.
What is 2:00 AM in military time?
2:00 AM is 0200. Drop the AM/PM, add 12 to any PM hour, and write the result as four digits with no colon.
Convert any military time