How do you convert 12:15 to military time?

Military time is the way of measuring time in which the day runs from midnight to midnight. In military time, hours are expressed using 24-hour clocks and have a suffix of "00" instead of "12". It is commonly used in organized activities, planning, and scheduling due to its accuracy and simplification of time management. Converting regular time to military time can seem like a daunting task, but it is actually quite simple. In this article, we will discuss how to convert 12:15 pm to military time.

To begin converting 12:15 pm to military time, you need to determine whether you have a 12:15 am (in the morning) or 12:15 pm (in the afternoon). Since in this case we have 12:15 pm as our starting point, we know that no adjustment is required since it's already in the afternoon.

Now that we've determined that we're starting off with a pm time, all that is left is to apply the 24-hour clock conversion. This involves adding 12 to your starting point of 12:15 pm. So when you add 12 to your number, you get 24:15 which indicates it is currently 24 hours into the day and 15 minutes into that hour. Therefore, since 24:15 translates to 0015 (or 15 minutes after midnight) in military time, using this same format – 12:15 pm in standard time becomes 0015 in military time.

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