0040 military time is 12:40 AM
0040 is 12:40 AM on a twelve hour clock, the small hours. Spoken aloud it is zero zero forty.
What is 0040 in regular time?
12:40 AM. Hours below 1200 map straight across, so 0040 is simply 12:40 in the morning, except that 00 is read as 12. Military time never uses a colon and never uses AM or PM, because the hour alone says which half of the day you mean.
How do you say 0040?
"zero zero forty". Minutes are read as a number after the hour, with no "hundred" and no "oh" before a two digit value. The leading zero is spoken as "zero", which is what distinguishes it from a twelve hour reading.
12:40 AM in military time
The other direction: 12:40 AM is 0040. Morning times keep their hour and gain a leading zero if it is a single digit. Either way the minutes never change.
Questions
- What is 0040 in military time?
- 0040 is 12:40 AM.
- How is 0040 spoken?
- zero zero forty.
- What is 12:40 AM in military time?
- 0040.
- Does military time use AM and PM?
- No. The hour runs 00 to 23, so the notation is already unambiguous and needs no suffix.
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