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0300 military time is 3:00 AM

0300 is 3:00 AM on a twelve hour clock, the small hours. Spoken aloud it is zero three hundred hours.

Military
0300
zero three hundred hours
12 hour clock
3:00 AM
the small hours
Minutes past midnight
180
12.5% through the day
0300 · 03:00 in 24 hour notation · 3:00 AM in 12 hour notation

What is 0300 in regular time?

3:00 AM. Hours below 1200 map straight across, so 0300 is simply 3:00 in the morning. 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 0300?

"zero three hundred hours". Times on the hour take "hundred", so the trailing zeros are spoken rather than skipped. The leading zero is spoken as "zero", which is what distinguishes it from a twelve hour reading.

3:00 AM in military time

The other direction: 3:00 AM is 0300. 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 0300 in military time?
0300 is 3:00 AM.
How is 0300 spoken?
zero three hundred hours.
What is 3:00 AM in military time?
0300.
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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