1000 Military Time — 10:00 AM

1000 on the 24-hour clock is 10:00 AM on the 12-hour clock, written 10:00 in civilian notation and spoken "ten hundred hours".

Military
1000
12-hour
10:00 AM
24-hour
10:00

Spoken as “ten hundred hours”.

What is 1000 in military time?

1000 is 10:00 AM on the 12-hour clock, and 10:00 on the civilian 24-hour clock. It is spoken aloud as ten hundred hours” — never “10 o'clock”, and never with a colon in the written form.

The hour is under 12, so nothing is subtracted. 10 stays 10, and the time is AM.

Written down it is four digits with no separator and no AM or PM: 1000. The first two digits are the hour, the last two are the minutes, and the minutes are ordinary minutes — 1045 would be 10:45 AM.

Where 1000 sits in the day

1000 is 10 hours into the day and 14 hours from the next midnight. In the watch system it falls in the forenoon watch, the main working morning. Briefings, appointments and flight departures are scheduled through this block, and the numbers match the 12-hour clock exactly, so it is the easiest stretch of the day to read.

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 1000
Military12-hourSpoken
07007:00 AMzero seven hundred
08008:00 AMzero eight hundred
09009:00 AMzero nine hundred
100010:00 AMten hundred
110011:00 AMeleven hundred
120012:00 PMtwelve hundred
13001:00 PMthirteen 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 1000 row. For a value that is not on a half hour, the military time converter takes anything you type in either direction, including 10:00 AM and 1000.

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.