How do you say 9:30 AM in military time?

Understanding Military Time for Mornings

When you are trying to figure out how to convert morning hours into military time, the process is actually super simple because the morning hours stay pretty much the same as standard time. Military time runs on a continuous 24-hour clock that starts right at midnight, meaning the morning hours from 1:00 AM to 11:59 AM look almost identical to what you are already used to.

To write out a morning time correctly in the military format, all you have to do is drop the colon and make sure you always have a four-digit number. If you are looking at a time earlier than 10:00 AM, you just need to pop a leading zero right at the very front. For example, if you want to know how to say 9:30 AM in military time, you simply remove the punctuation and add that zero in front, making it 0930 (pronounced "oh-nine-thirty").

This same rule applies to any time between 0100 and 0959. Once the clock hits 10:00 AM, you drop the colon and keep all four digits normally without needing the extra zero, turning 10:00 AM into 1000 and 11:30 AM into 1130. Things only change drastically once the afternoon hits, where you stop using standard a.m. or p.m. rules and start adding 12 hours to any time past 12:59 PM.