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hours, and so on. This continues until midnight, when
the clock resets. Here are a few more examples:
 4 p.m. is 1600 hours.
 5 p.m. is 1700 hours.
 6 p.m. is 1800 hours.
 10 p.m. is 2200 hours.
 11 p.m. is 2300 hours.

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Learn how to say the hours in military time.

If you're dealing with whole hours without any minutes,
saying them aloud is easy. If there's a zero as the first
digit, then say the first two digits as "Zero" and
whatever number is next, followed by "Hundred Hours."
If there's a 1 or 2 as the first digit, then say the first two
numbers as a pair of numbers with a tens and ones digit,
followed by "Hundred Hours." Here's are some
examples:
 0100 hours is "Zero One Hundred Hours."
 0200 hours is "Zero Two Hundred Hours."
 0300 hours is "Zero Three Hundred Hours."
 1100 hours is "Eleven Hundred Hours."
 2300 hours is "Twenty Three Hundred Hours."

 Note that in the military, "Zero" is always used to
signify the zero digit in front of a number. "Oh" is
used more casually.

 Note that using "hours" is optional.

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