What is 0330 hours in standard time?

3:30 AM

standard (12-hour) time for 0330

0330 hours = 3:30 AM

Key figures

033024-hour time

3:30 AM12-hour time

210minutes after midnight

3.5 hhours after midnight

Morning (AM)half of the day

1,230minutes until next midnight

—special time

read as pairsspoken form

The conversion

0330 hours is 3:30 AM. The first two digits are the hour on a 24-hour clock (3) and the last two are the minutes (30). Hours 01 to 11 are morning hours, so they stay the same and take AM.

How military time works

Military time, more correctly the 24-hour clock, numbers the hours 00 through 23 and writes minutes as two digits, with no colon and no AM or PM. Midnight at the start of a day is 0000 and noon is 1200. The U.S. military, hospitals, aviation, transport and emergency services use it because it removes any doubt between morning and evening times.

Saying it aloud

0330 is read as the hour and then the minutes, for example ‘zero three thirty’. Times from 0100 to 0900 begin with ‘zero’, as in ‘zero eight hundred’. The chart above gives the spoken form for every whole hour.

Quick rules

To go from 12-hour to 24-hour time, keep AM hours as they are (except 12 AM, which is 00) and add 12 to PM hours (except 12 PM, which stays 12). To go back, subtract 12 from hours above 12, use AM for hours below 12, and use PM for 12 and above. Use the time-duration calculator when you need the length of the gap between two times.

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