Free Printable Military Time Chart Templates

How often does it happen that you set up an alarm for 7 AM so that you don’t miss an important appointment but halfway through noon you realize your alarm never went off and on checking you find it was set for 7 PM instead? It is a sad reality, but, a reality at that!

It happens too often for it to be funny that you end up confusing the time with AM and PM when you’re in a hurry and end up paying for it. But what if you could change all that around? Is there a way to tackle that problem? Well, wouldn’t you be glad to know – Yes, there is, and it is commonly known as Military Time.

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What is Military Time?

We all know about the conventional way of telling ad reading time right? First, it is 12 AM to 11:59 AM and then the same cycle continues with the PM i.e. 12 PM to 11:59 PM. But in Military time, we just make things a bit easier and straightforward by using the 24-hour format instead of the 12-hour format. And how that works is that we would start the day with 12 AM, we start it with 00 and instead of repeating everything back from 1 after 12, we go on to 13:00, 14:00 up to 23:59, after which again get the 00:00 that we started with. Military Time also avoids using the “:” between the hours and minutes, so the actual time would look like 1100, 1345, 2359, and so on.

Printable Military Time Chart with Half Hours — Printable Military Time Chart with half-hours

If you’ve never used Military time before in your life, you might find it weird getting used to the time without the AM and PM format and the numbers going all the way up to 23. But once you start getting the hang of it, you’ll find that it is much easier and more efficient to use. And no need to worry, this Military Time Chart will help you in getting used to reading the times in 24-hour military time format.

Uses and Advantages of Military Time

Military time has a lot of uses and advantages over the regular 12-hour clock-style time. Here are some of the key advantages:

Military time takes away any opportunity of confusion between the AM and PM time. The earlier problem of setting up an alarm for AM but accidentally setting it up for PM instead is easily solved with military time.
This time format also reduces any sort of confusion while communicating. You could tell someone the time as 2235 and they’d know right away that it is supposed to convey 10:35 at night, i.e. 10:35 PM.
Many emergency and official institutions like hospitals, fire stations, police stations, and military establishments use this to reduce any opportunity for mistakes with time.

If you want to get better at understanding military time and want to be fluent in reading time in that format, check out Printable Military Time Charts. These are available in printable PDF formats that you can keep with you or at your desk and access anytime.