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Military time is generally used to describe the modified 24-hour timekeeping used by the military and government organizations in countries where standard AM\/PM time is used by civilians. An example is \u201cO nine hundred thirty hours\u201d to communicate 9:30 AM in standard time. Minutes in the communication of military time are different when notating the amount of time that has elapsed or passed. An example where military time minutes are needed for calculating time is for\u00a0payroll.<\/a>\u00a0When determining the amount of time you may have worked in more detail than a rounded hour, you may have to report the time incrementally based on minutes. When notating this number in\u00a0military time<\/a>\u00a0you will need to understand how military time minutes are calculated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Are\u00a0Military Minutes?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The term “military minutes” is identical to decimal minutes<\/a>. Both military minutes and decimal minutes can be found by dividing the number of minutes by 60 (the number of minutes in an hour.) A simple example would be a scenario where you had worked 35 minutes of an hour. To determine how many military minutes were equal to 35 minutes you would divide 60 by 35 (60 \u00f7<\/strong> 35 = 0.58). This means you had worked 0.58 military minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This can get quite confusing. When notating the actual moment in time, you simply place the minutes after the hours in military time. For example, 12:05 PM would be \u201c1205\u201d in military time. However if you were to put down that you worked\u00a0twelve\u00a0hours and five minutes\u00a0in military time minutes in decimals, you would notate 12.08 on your timesheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, Why are Military Minutes Used this Way?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Because the decimal is simply a number to represent what fraction of an hour you are notating, or in this case, the fraction of an hour you worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us look at a few more examples:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • If you worked 4 hours and 15 minutes<\/em>, you would notate military minutes as 4.25. Because you worked .25 of an hour.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • If you worked 8 hours and 40 minutes<\/em>, you would notate military minutes as 8.67. Again, because you worked .67 of an hour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Luckily there is a trick to this to make it easy.<\/strong> To make this calculation yourself you can refer to the table below for a quick conversion of standard minutes to military minutes. Or you could just do the math yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    To do the conversion all you must do is divide the amount of minutes by 60.<\/strong> To take the example above of 8 hours and 40 minutes: 40 minutes \/ 60 = 0.67. Next, you add the hours to the minutes 8 + 0.67 = 8.67.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Military Time Minutes Conversion Chart<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    The military time minutes conversion chart below is an ultra-fast tool for this type of calculation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/tr><\/thead>\n
    Standard Minutes<\/strong><\/td>Military Time Minutes<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>\n
    0<\/td>0<\/td><\/tr>\n
    1<\/td>0.02<\/td><\/tr>\n
    2<\/td>0.03<\/td><\/tr>\n
    3<\/td>0.05<\/td><\/tr>\n
    4<\/td>0.07<\/td><\/tr>\n
    5<\/td>0.08<\/td><\/tr>\n
    6<\/td>0.1<\/td><\/tr>\n
    7<\/td>0.11<\/td><\/tr>\n
    8<\/td>0.13<\/td><\/tr>\n
    9<\/td>0.15<\/td><\/tr>\n
    10<\/td>0.17<\/td><\/tr>\n
    11<\/td>0.18<\/td><\/tr>\n
    12<\/td>0.2<\/td><\/tr>\n
    13<\/td>0.21<\/td><\/tr>\n
    14<\/td>0.23<\/td><\/tr>\n
    15<\/td>0.25<\/td><\/tr>\n
    16<\/td>0.27<\/td><\/tr>\n
    17<\/td>0.28<\/td><\/tr>\n
    18<\/td>0.3<\/td><\/tr>\n
    19<\/td>0.31<\/td><\/tr>\n
    20<\/td>0.33<\/td><\/tr>\n
    21<\/td>0.35<\/td><\/tr>\n
    22<\/td>0.37<\/td><\/tr>\n
    23<\/td>0.38<\/td><\/tr>\n
    24<\/td>0.4<\/td><\/tr>\n
    25<\/td>0.41<\/td><\/tr>\n
    26<\/td>0.43<\/td><\/tr>\n
    27<\/td>0.45<\/td><\/tr>\n
    28<\/td>0.47<\/td><\/tr>\n
    29<\/td>0.48<\/td><\/tr>\n
    30<\/td>0.5<\/td><\/tr>\n
    31<\/td>0.51<\/td><\/tr>\n
    32<\/td>0.53<\/td><\/tr>\n
    33<\/td>0.55<\/td><\/tr>\n
    34<\/td>0.57<\/td><\/tr>\n
    35<\/td>0.58<\/td><\/tr>\n
    36<\/td>0.6<\/td><\/tr>\n
    37<\/td>0.61<\/td><\/tr>\n
    38<\/td>0.63<\/td><\/tr>\n
    39<\/td>0.65<\/td><\/tr>\n
    40<\/td>0.67<\/td><\/tr>\n
    41<\/td>0.68<\/td><\/tr>\n
    42<\/td>0.7<\/td><\/tr>\n
    43<\/td>0.71<\/td><\/tr>\n
    44<\/td>0.73<\/td><\/tr>\n
    45<\/td>0.75<\/td><\/tr>\n
    46<\/td>0.77<\/td><\/tr>\n
    47<\/td>0.78<\/td><\/tr>\n
    48<\/td>0.8<\/td><\/tr>\n
    49<\/td>0.81<\/td><\/tr>\n
    50<\/td>0.83<\/td><\/tr>\n
    51<\/td>0.85<\/td><\/tr>\n
    52<\/td>0.87<\/td><\/tr>\n
    53<\/td>0.88<\/td><\/tr>\n
    54<\/td>0.9<\/td><\/tr>\n
    55<\/td>0.91<\/td><\/tr>\n
    56<\/td>0.93<\/td><\/tr>\n
    57<\/td>0.95<\/td><\/tr>\n
    58<\/td>0.96<\/td><\/tr>\n
    59<\/td>0.98<\/td><\/tr>\n
    60<\/td>1<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n\n