How many hours is 12am to 6am?
12am to 6am
6 hours
12am to 6am is 6 hours, or 360 minutes.
- Hours and minutes
- 6 hours
- Total minutes
- 360
- Decimal hours
- 6
- With a 30-minute unpaid break
- 5 hours 30 minutes (5.5 decimal hours)
- Crosses midnight
- No
- 24-hour notation
- 00:00 to 06:00
About this shift
The shift starts at midnight and ends in the morning on the same date. It doesn't cross midnight, so the hours are a plain subtraction. It runs from 12am to 6am and finishes 6 hours before noon.
6 hours is 2 hours short of 8 hours. Five of these shifts come to 30 hours a week, or 27 hours 30 minutes with a 30-minute unpaid break each day.
If you take a 30-minute unpaid break, 5 hours 30 minutes remain, which a timesheet in decimal hours shows as 5.5. The 30 minutes is an example, not a legal rule. Whether you get a break, and whether it is paid, depends on your employer and where you work.
12pm is noon and 12am is midnight.
How the hours are worked out
- Write both times in 24-hour form: 00:00 and 06:00.
- Subtract. 06:00 − 00:00 = 6:00, which is 6 hours.
- For minutes, 6 × 60 = 360. For decimal hours, 360 ÷ 60 = 6.
- With the break, 360 − 30 = 330 minutes, or 5 hours 30 minutes.
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Other times, or a whole week
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