i would like to know about the military time in general. how many minutes are there in a hour 60 or 100?

Question

my husband works for a company that use the military time on a clock out system and the lady in the office tell me that for example 1350 is really 1:30 i can't see this because how do you get 100 minutes in a hour please explain

Answer 1

No, in military time the minutes stay the same. The difference is that the hours go on a 24 hour basis starting at midnight, so for p.m., the hours number is 12 higher than what you would see on a 12-hour clock.

Maybe they're not really using military time, but using a clock that has the hours like military time, but using hundredths of an hour rather than minutes for the parts of an hour. Payroll clocks typically use a 24 hour time for hours, so they don't have to distinguish between a.m. and p.m. Tell your husband to stand by the clock sometime at xx:59 and see what comes up next, whether it goes to the next hour:00, which military time would do, or xx:60 then xx:61, which would say they're using hundredths of an hour instead of minutes - that would be legal, and would probably make pay for portions of an hour easier to calculate, so might well be happening. If that's the case, then her only mistake is calling it military time.

Answer 2

This isn't military time. I don't know the exact term, but's it's common for time clocks to mark time this way. Each minute is counted as 1/100th of an hour and to calculate the time clock minute you take the actual number of minutes and divide by 60. For example, 15 minutes divided by 60 = .25, so 10:15 is shown as 1025. The hours are the same as military time in that a 24 hour clock is used rather than AM and PM. That's why1300 = 1:00 PM.

Answer 3

don't think of them as minutes...think of them as ticks.
there are 100 ticks in an hour and so, you just have to use your brain a little more when figuring out the minutes vs. ticks.

if it's 1350 , then it's 1:30 then, you know that 50 is half of 100 and 30 is half of 60.
same if it's 1325...then, it's 1:15. 25 is a quarter of 100 and 15 is a quarter of an hour.

i hope this helps.

i was a wal-mart manager for a period of time and we had a similar system. i used to try and explain it to employees all the time.

take care.

p.s.
don't think of it as military time.
it is LIKE military time b/c of the hours 1300, 1400, etc.
however, it isn't true military time b/c military time follows minutes and you are talking about a payroll timeclock system.

it is easier for a company to do payroll when the hours are divided by 100 not 60. this way you can easily determine how much someone gets paid for partial hours.

example:
you get $12/hour.
you work a quarter of an hour so, you get $3.
take it to a basic level of
$1/hour.
you work a quarter of that, = $.25
it's easier to figure out than by using minutes.

hope this helped!

Answer 4

She's wrong. Military time is really pretty simple.

0000 = 12 AM
0100 = 1 AM
0200 = 2 AM
0300 = 3 AM
0315 = 3:15 AM
1000 (articulated 10 hundred hours) = 10 AM
1200 (12 hundred hours) = 12 PM
1300 (13 hundred hours) = 1 PM
Just add 12 to every hour after 12 noon and you have military time.

I now work for a company that uses the .25 = 15 min., .50 = 1/2 hour, .75 = 45 mins., maybe this is the system that your husband's company uses. Hope it helps...

Answer 5

Military time is easy once you know the trick. There are still 60 minutes in an hour: up until 1:00pm, you just say 'hundred' instead of o'clock. So 8:00am would be 800 hours. Noon is 1200 hours (twelve hundred hours). The difference is, they use a 24 hour clock instead of a 12 hour one: they don't repeat times, they just continue on. 1:00pm becomes 1300 hours. The best trick I know, is if it's an afternoon time, just minus 1200 from whatever the 'hundred hours' is and that's what time it is. So if someone says it's 1500 hours: 1500 - 1200 = 300 hours, so it's 3:00pm. Get it? It's not so easy to explain in writing :)

Answer 6

Military time uses a 24 hour clock rather than two (am and pm) 12 hour units to make up the day. So, after 12 noon, it becomes 1300 hours rather instead of 1:00pm. There are still 60 minutes in each hour, though.

Answer 7

There are 60 minutes in 1 hour.
1350=1:50p

Answer 8

24 hour clock. lower numbers 9 am is 0900 hours
9 pm would be 2100 hours only 60 minutes in a hour. Small numbers in the am large numbers in the pm.
The military uses this system so there is no way anyone can mix up am and pm.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

There's always 60 minutes in an hour. Basically you take military time and minus 12. Therefore you get what the time really is.