1230 military time is 12:30 PM
1230 military time is 12:30 PM, or twelve thirty in the afternoon. It is said aloud as "twelve thirty". It is an afternoon time, 12 hours 30 minutes after midnight and 11 hours 30 minutes before the next midnight. With a colon, in the 24-hour clock most of the world writes, it is 12:30.
- Standard time
- 12:30 PM
- Said aloud
- twelve thirty
- 24-hour clock
- 12:30
- Part of the day
- Afternoon
- After midnight
- 12 hours 30 minutes
- Until midnight
- 11 hours 30 minutes
How to convert 1230 military time to standard time
1230 is 12:30 PM, 30 minutes past noon. The hour stays 12, but the letters change: everything from 1200 to 1259 is PM, because it comes after noon. This is the hour people most often get wrong, since 12 is the only PM hour you do not subtract 12 from. Going back, 12:30 PM is 1230: keep the 12, drop the colon and the PM.
How to say 1230
1230 is said "twelve thirty": the hour as "twelve" and then the minutes as a plain number. Nobody says "half past" in military time, and nobody says "hundred" once there are minutes on the clock. "Twelve thirty hours" is common in speech, though Army correspondence rules (AR 25-50, paragraph 1-26) leave the word hours out in writing.
Hours from 1230 to common times
Timesheets ask this more than anything else: how long is it from 1230 to the end of the day, or from the start of a shift to 1230? The table counts the time in the natural direction, from the earlier time to the later one, and gives decimal hours for payroll.
| Between | Hours and minutes | Decimal hours |
|---|---|---|
| From 0000 (midnight, start of the day) to 1230 | 12 hours 30 minutes | 12.5 |
| From 0900 to 1230 | 3 hours 30 minutes | 3.5 |
| From 1200 (noon) to 1230 | 30 minutes | 0.5 |
| From 1230 to 1700 | 4 hours 30 minutes | 4.5 |
| From 1230 to 2400 (midnight, end of the day) | 11 hours 30 minutes | 11.5 |
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Times near 1230
The quarter hours of the hour before, the hour itself and the hour after, so you can read off a time a few minutes either side of 1230 without converting again.
| Military time | 24-hour clock | Standard time | Said aloud |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1100 | 11:00 | 11:00 AM | eleven hundred |
| 1115 | 11:15 | 11:15 AM | eleven fifteen |
| 1130 | 11:30 | 11:30 AM | eleven thirty |
| 1145 | 11:45 | 11:45 AM | eleven forty-five |
| 1200 | 12:00 | 12:00 PM | twelve hundred |
| 1215 | 12:15 | 12:15 PM | twelve fifteen |
| 1230 | 12:30 | 12:30 PM | twelve thirty |
| 1245 | 12:45 | 12:45 PM | twelve forty-five |
| 1300 | 13:00 | 1:00 PM | thirteen hundred |
| 1315 | 13:15 | 1:15 PM | thirteen fifteen |
| 1330 | 13:30 | 1:30 PM | thirteen thirty |
| 1345 | 13:45 | 1:45 PM | thirteen forty-five |
Is 1230 morning, afternoon, evening or night?
1230 is an afternoon time: 30 minutes after noon and 11 hours 30 minutes before midnight. It sits in the second half of a standard working day, soon after lunch. On the 12-hour clock it is 12:30 PM; the PM is what tells you it is the afternoon rather than the night.
Questions people ask
What time is 1230 in military time?
1230 is 12:30 PM, twelve thirty in the afternoon. The hour 12 stays 12, and it is PM because it is noon or just after.
How do you say 1230 in military time?
"Twelve thirty". The minutes are read as a plain number, so 30 is "thirty". In conversation people often add "hours" at the end.
Is 1230 AM or PM?
PM. 1200 is noon, the first minute of PM, and everything up to 1259 is PM with it. Military time never uses the letters, which is the point of it: 1230 can only mean one moment in the day.
How many hours is it from 1230 to midnight?
11 hours 30 minutes, or 11.5 in decimal hours, counting to 2400 at the end of the day. From 0900 to 1230 is 3 hours 30 minutes (3.5 hours). From 1230 to 1700 is 4 hours 30 minutes (4.5 hours). The converter works out the time between any two military times, including across midnight.