what is the equivalent of 1400 military time in standard time?

Telling time can be an essential skill for people in many different fields, but due to differences in type of time standardization, it's especially important for those in the military. Military time is formatted with a 24-hour clock, meaning rather than reading "2:00 PM" like traditional time, it reads "1400." It can take awhile to get used to this type of formatting, so people may wonder how to convert military time into civilian standard time.

The easiest way to convert 1400 military time is by subtracting 1200 hours. This results in a two-digit number that will represent the same hour and minutes of standard civilian time. In other words, subtracting 1200 from 1400 gives you a two-digit number of 2 which will then read as "2:00 PM" in standard civilian notation. From there it's easy to convert the remaining military times using this same math equation. For example, 1300 military time would give you 1:00PM (1300 - 1200 = 1) and so on until you reach 0000 which would read as 12:00PM since subtracting 1200 from 0 would still result in 0.

It's important to note that this method of conversion only works for before noon times as anything after midday requires a conversion method involving an additional math operation such as addition rather than subtraction. For instance, 1500 military time would become 3:00PM since adding 12 hours would give you 27 which when reduced to its two digit form becomes 3 – thus reading "3:00PM" in standard civilian notation.