0200 at a glance
- 12-hour time
- 2:00 AM
- 24-hour clock
- 02:00
- Say it
- zero two hundred hours
- Part of day
- Night (after midnight)
- Minutes after midnight
- 120
- Minutes until midnight
- 1,320
- Decimal hours
- 2.00
- Share of the day gone
- 8.33%
How to convert 0200 to standard time
- The hour digits are 02. Hours 01 to 11 are the same on both clocks — just drop the leading zero: 2.
- Put a colon before the minutes and add AM: 2:00 AM.
How to say 0200
| Style | How it sounds |
|---|---|
| Military (spoken) | “zero two hundred hours” |
| Short form | “zero two hundred” |
| Radio, digit by digit | “zero two zero zero” |
| Civilian | “two o’clock in the morning” |
| Written 24-hour | 02:00 or 0200 |
On the hour, the minutes are spoken as “hundred”: 0200 is “zero two hundred hours.” The leading zero is spoken too.
0200 Zulu (UTC) in US time zones
Military and aviation schedules give times in Zulu — Coordinated Universal Time — so that everyone works from one clock. When a message says 0200Z, this is the local time across the United States:
| Time zone | Standard time | Daylight time |
|---|---|---|
| Eastern (EST / EDT) | 9:00 PM (previous day) — R | 10:00 PM (previous day) — Q |
| Central (CST / CDT) | 8:00 PM (previous day) — S | 9:00 PM (previous day) — R |
| Mountain (MST / MDT) | 7:00 PM (previous day) — T | 8:00 PM (previous day) — S |
| Pacific (PST / PDT) | 6:00 PM (previous day) — U | 7:00 PM (previous day) — T |
| Alaska (AKST / AKDT) | 5:00 PM (previous day) — V | 6:00 PM (previous day) — U |
| Hawaii (HST) | 4:00 PM (previous day) — W | No daylight time |
The letter after each time is that zone’s military time-zone letter: Eastern standard time is R (Romeo, UTC−5), so 0200Z is 2100R. Daylight time runs from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November; Hawaii and most of Arizona stay on standard time all year.
If 0200 is your local time
- 0200 Eastern is 0700Z in winter (EST) and 0600Z in summer (EDT).
- 0200 Central is 0800Z in winter (CST) and 0700Z in summer (CDT).
- 0200 Mountain is 0900Z in winter (MST) and 0800Z in summer (MDT).
- 0200 Pacific is 1000Z in winter (PST) and 0900Z in summer (PDT).
Times around 0200
| Change | Military | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| −60 min | 0100 | 1:00 AM |
| −45 min | 0115 | 1:15 AM |
| −30 min | 0130 | 1:30 AM |
| −15 min | 0145 | 1:45 AM |
| This time | 0200 | 2:00 AM |
| +15 min | 0215 | 2:15 AM |
| +30 min | 0230 | 2:30 AM |
| +45 min | 0245 | 2:45 AM |
| +60 min | 0300 | 3:00 AM |
Shifts that start at 0200
- An 8-hour shift starting at 0200 ends at 1000 (10:00 AM).
- A 10-hour shift starting at 0200 ends at 1200 (12:00 PM).
- A 12-hour shift starting at 0200 ends at 1400 (2:00 PM).
- To total the hours on a real time card with breaks, use the time card calculator.
0200 in everyday use
- 0200 falls in the overnight hours — the time of night shifts, red-eye flights and early deliveries. Writing it as 0200 instead of 2:00 AM removes any doubt about whether the morning or the evening is meant.
- US clocks change at 0200 local time. On the spring-forward Sunday in March, clocks jump from 0159 straight to 0300, so 0200 never happens that night in places that observe daylight saving time.
Frequently asked questions
What is 0200 in regular time?
0200 is 2:00 AM in regular 12-hour time.
Is 0200 AM or PM?
0200 is AM. Military times from 0000 to 1159 are AM and times from 1200 to 2359 are PM.
How do you say 0200 in military time?
Say “zero two hundred hours.” In radio procedure each digit is spoken separately, so 0200 can also be read digit by digit.
What is 0200 Zulu in Eastern time?
0200Z is 9:00 PM (previous day) Eastern Standard Time (UTC−5) and 10:00 PM (previous day) Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4).