2300 military time is 11:00 PM
2300 military time is 11:00 PM, or eleven o'clock at night. It is said aloud as "twenty-three hundred". It is late at night, 23 hours after midnight and 1 hour before the next midnight. With a colon, in the 24-hour clock most of the world writes, it is 23:00.
- Standard time
- 11:00 PM
- Said aloud
- twenty-three hundred
- 24-hour clock
- 23:00
- Part of the day
- Night
- After midnight
- 23 hours
- Until midnight
- 1 hour
How to convert 2300 military time to standard time
2300 is after noon, so subtract 12 from the hour: 23 minus 12 is 11. Keep the 00 minutes and add PM, which gives 11:00 PM. The same subtraction converts every military time from 1300 to 2359. To go the other way, add 12 to the hour of 11:00 PM: 11 plus 12 is 23, so 11:00 PM is 2300.
How to say 2300
2300 is said "twenty-three hundred". The hour is read as "twenty-three" and the 00 minutes become "hundred", which is why on-the-hour times sound like round numbers. You will hear "twenty-three hundred hours" too; the word is common in speech, though Army correspondence rules (AR 25-50, paragraph 1-26) leave it out in writing.
Hours from 2300 to common times
Timesheets ask this more than anything else: how long is it from 2300 to the end of the day, or from the start of a shift to 2300? 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 2300 | 23 hours | 23 |
| From 0900 to 2300 | 14 hours | 14 |
| From 1200 (noon) to 2300 | 11 hours | 11 |
| From 1700 to 2300 | 6 hours | 6 |
| From 2300 to 2400 (midnight, end of the day) | 1 hour | 1 |
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Times near 2300
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 2300 without converting again.
| Military time | 24-hour clock | Standard time | Said aloud |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2200 | 22:00 | 10:00 PM | twenty-two hundred |
| 2215 | 22:15 | 10:15 PM | twenty-two fifteen |
| 2230 | 22:30 | 10:30 PM | twenty-two thirty |
| 2245 | 22:45 | 10:45 PM | twenty-two forty-five |
| 2300 | 23:00 | 11:00 PM | twenty-three hundred |
| 2315 | 23:15 | 11:15 PM | twenty-three fifteen |
| 2330 | 23:30 | 11:30 PM | twenty-three thirty |
| 2345 | 23:45 | 11:45 PM | twenty-three forty-five |
| 0000 | 00:00 | 12:00 AM | zero zero hundred |
| 0015 | 00:15 | 12:15 AM | zero zero fifteen |
| 0030 | 00:30 | 12:30 AM | zero zero thirty |
| 0045 | 00:45 | 12:45 AM | zero zero forty-five |
Is 2300 morning, afternoon, evening or night?
2300 is night by most people's reckoning: 11 hours after noon, 1 hour before the day ends at midnight. In 12-hour terms it is 11:00 PM. Evening shifts tend to finish and night shifts tend to start around here, which is why 2300 turns up so often on rotas and timesheets.
Questions people ask
What time is 2300 in military time?
2300 is 11:00 PM, eleven o'clock at night. Subtract 12 from 23 to get 11, keep the minutes and add PM.
How do you say 2300 in military time?
"Twenty-three hundred". On the hour the two zero minutes are read as "hundred". In conversation people often add "hours" at the end.
Is 2300 AM or PM?
PM. Every military time from 1200 to 2359 is PM, and 2300 is 11 hours past noon. Military time never uses the letters, which is the point of it: 2300 can only mean one moment in the day.
How many hours is it from 2300 to midnight?
1 hour exactly, counting to 2400 at the end of the day. From 0900 to 2300 is 14 hours. The converter works out the time between any two military times, including across midnight.