0600 Military Time — 6:00 AM

0600 on the 24-hour clock is 6:00 AM on the 12-hour clock, written 06:00 in civilian notation and spoken "zero six hundred hours".

Military
0600
12-hour
6:00 AM
24-hour
06:00

Spoken as “zero six hundred hours”.

What is 0600 in military time?

0600 is 6:00 AM on the 12-hour clock, and 06:00 on the civilian 24-hour clock. It is spoken aloud as zero six hundred hours” — never “6 o'clock”, and never with a colon in the written form.

The hour is under 12, so nothing is subtracted. 6 stays 6, and the time is AM.

Written down it is four digits with no separator and no AM or PM: 0600. The first two digits are the hour, the last two are the minutes, and the minutes are ordinary minutes — 0645 would be 6:45 AM.

Where 0600 sits in the day

0600 is 6 hours into the day and 18 hours from the next midnight. In the watch system it falls in the morning watch, the block that starts the working day. Reveille, first formation and shift handovers all land here, which is why these are the times most often written on a rota that someone has to read half awake.

The hours either side

Three hours in each direction, since the value you are checking is usually next to the one you actually need.

Military times within three hours of 0600
Military12-hourSpoken
03003:00 AMzero three hundred
04004:00 AMzero four hundred
05005:00 AMzero five hundred
06006:00 AMzero six hundred
07007:00 AMzero seven hundred
08008:00 AMzero eight hundred
09009:00 AMzero nine hundred

Everything else on the 24-hour clock

The full chart lists every hour and half hour from 0000 to 2330 and prints on one page — that link jumps straight to the 0600 row. For a value that is not on a half hour, the military time converter takes anything you type in either direction, including 6:00 AM and 0600.

If what actually tripped you up was midnight versus noon rather than this hour, the 12 AM vs 12 PM explainer covers why the 12-hour clock cannot settle that question on its own.