Military Time Right Now
The current military time is
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Your device's local time, ticking every second.
This clock reads your device's own time and ticks every second, so it matches whatever the people around you are looking at.
Reading the current military time
The four digits above are the hour followed by the minutes. Before 1000 the hour carries a leading zero, so nine in the morning shows as 0900 and is spoken "zero nine hundred hours". From 1300 onward, subtract 12 to get the afternoon time on a normal clock.
Local time, Zulu time and the clock above
The military time shown here is your local time written in 24-hour notation. Zulu time is different: it is Coordinated Universal Time, the single clock that units in different time zones coordinate against, written with a Z on the end as in 1800Z. The Zulu figure above is what the same instant is in UTC.
Why the day ends at 2359
A day runs from 0000 to 2359. The minute after 2359 is 0000 of the next day — the clock never displays 2400 as it ticks. You will still see 2400 written down, because a shift or a duty period that finishes at midnight is recorded as ending at 2400 rather than starting a new day at 0000.
The full chart
For every hour at once, see the military time chart, or convert any specific time on the converter.