How many hours is 2am to 6am?
2am to 6am
4 hours
2am to 6am is 4 hours, or 240 minutes.
- Hours and minutes
- 4 hours
- Total minutes
- 240
- Decimal hours
- 4
- With a 30-minute unpaid break
- 3 hours 30 minutes (3.5 decimal hours)
- Crosses midnight
- No
- 24-hour notation
- 02:00 to 06:00
About this shift
The shift starts in the small hours and ends in the morning on the same date. It doesn't cross midnight, so the hours are a plain subtraction. It runs from 2am to 6am and finishes 6 hours before noon.
4 hours is 4 hours short of 8 hours. Five of these shifts come to 20 hours a week, or 17 hours 30 minutes with a 30-minute unpaid break each day.
If you take a 30-minute unpaid break, 3 hours 30 minutes remain, which a timesheet in decimal hours shows as 3.5. 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.
How the hours are worked out
- Write both times in 24-hour form: 02:00 and 06:00.
- Subtract. 06:00 − 02:00 = 4:00, which is 4 hours.
- For minutes, 4 × 60 = 240. For decimal hours, 240 ÷ 60 = 4.
- With the break, 240 − 30 = 210 minutes, or 3 hours 30 minutes.
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Other times, or a whole week
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