What is the easiest or fastest way to learn military time ?

If the time is greater than twelve, subtract twelve from the time, and that will be your time in the p.m.

For example…18:12 (-12), would be 6:12 p.m.

Just remember that 11am is 11:00 and that it then goes up by one, and at 12, it just continues growing as if counting, instead of going back to 1.

13 for 1pm
14 for 2pm

…and so on.

I remember certain times. Like 2000 is 8PM. Its easy to count if you have a point you know to count forward or back from. The other that I remember is 1600, 4PM. You already know that 1200 is noon and all the ones before that are easy. If you them pick your numbers to remember at intervals between that and 2400, its much easier.

I learned it pretty fast by joining the military….lol. But if you can’t do that, just see the above answers lol.

Switch the clock on your computer, it helps you to learn it.

Think of the clock as 24 hours
Divide it into quaters. 0300 Is 3 am
0600 is 6 am
0900 is 9am
1200 is 12 noon
1500 is 3 pm
1800 is 6pm
2100 is 9 pm
2400 is 12pm
When the number falls between just add 100 for each time. Once you know its is 2100 for 9 pm but you want so say it is 10:00 just add 100. So 10pm is 2200.
For me this was easier than subtracting.
After a while it will just become second nature like telling regular time

The easiest way, truly, is to have learned arithmetic (addition and subtraction, anyway) in second or third grade.

Alternatively, if you recall a few times that are important to you, such as 1800 (if you eat at 6 PM), 2100 (if your movie starts at 9 PM), 2330 (if you have an 11:30 PM curfew), etc. and relate other times to those. Just start working with it; it’s very simple, really.

I like @everephebe‘s method, too.

Add twelve to the hour:
3:00 p.m. = 12 + 3 = 1500
For me what it took was practice.

Learn to add numbers to 12 in the afternoon. After a while, it just becomes automatic. Of course what you call military time is what we call telling the time. We don’t use pm’s and am’s here in Norway.

Non-military jobs that use 24 hour time are also good for driving it in.

The new day begins at midnight. That is 0000 hours.
There are 24 hours in a day, and the old day also ends at midnight. 2400 Monday and 0000 Tuesday are the same thing 12:00 am. 2400 hours isn’t used.
Noon – 12:00 pm. is 1200 military time. Between midnight and noon, the time is the same whether or not you’re on regular or military time. After noon, you add the hour to 1200.
2:00 pm is 1400.
To add minutes to military time, you don’t have to do any fraction conversion, but rather just add the minutes. Example: If you get up for school at 6:30 am and catch the bus at 7:20 am, in military time you get up at 0630 and catch the bus at 0720. If school lets out at 3:15 pm, in military time it lets out at 1515 (3 pm is 3 hours after noontime, so 12 =3 =15)

Anything after Midnight is 0000 and add 100 to each hour after that and for the minutes you add each minute after the 100 such as 1:01am = 0101am or say 12:15pm = 1215pm. Military time is based on hunderd hours rather than have it say am or pm, they just keep going up until it ends at the highest number of 2359 for 11:59pm and starting again at 0000 12am or midnight. Basically take the time in the am and add 0 to the number and in the pm and add 1200 to it. The start of the day at midnight starts at all 0000 since its a new day. Minutes work like a normal clock and go from 00 to 59 and added to the end.
0000 =12am
0100 =1am
0200 =2am
0300 =3am
0400 =4am
0500 =5am
0600 =6am
0700 =7am
0800 =8am
0900 =9am
1000 =10am
1100 = 11am
1200 = 12pm

Anything after 12 noon add 1200 too the number am numbers
1300 =1pm
1400 =2pm
1500 =3pm
1600 =4pm
1700 =5pm
1800 =6pm
1900 =7pm
2000 =8pm
2100 =9pm
2200 =10pm
2300 =11pm

It’s easy to learn, just takes a bit of getting use to. The posters above who say to subtract 12 hours from any military time after noon are correct. : )

Practice. Get a watch that displays 24hr time, and refer to it. And when it tells you that it’s 19:15, remind yourself that instead of rolling over at 12pm, it’s just adding the hours as they come.

Easy way for me : 1830 ~
1830–200=1630 drop the one 6:30
1500–200=1300 = 3:00
1700–200=1500 = 5:00
2130–200=1930 = 9:30