How many hours is 2pm to 4pm?
2pm to 4pm
2 hours
2pm to 4pm is 2 hours, or 120 minutes.
- Hours and minutes
- 2 hours
- Total minutes
- 120
- Decimal hours
- 2
- With a 30-minute unpaid break
- 1 hour 30 minutes (1.5 decimal hours)
- Crosses midnight
- No
- 24-hour notation
- 14:00 to 16:00
About this shift
The shift starts and ends in the afternoon on the same date. It doesn't cross midnight, so the hours are a plain subtraction. It begins at 2pm, 2 hours after noon, and finishes at 4pm, 8 hours before midnight.
2 hours is less than half of an 8-hour day. If you take no break, all 120 minutes count as worked time.
If you take a 30-minute unpaid break, 1 hour 30 minutes remain, which a timesheet in decimal hours shows as 1.5. 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: 14:00 and 16:00.
- Subtract. 16:00 − 14:00 = 2:00, which is 2 hours.
- For minutes, 2 × 60 = 120. For decimal hours, 120 ÷ 60 = 2.
- With the break, 120 − 30 = 90 minutes, or 1 hour 30 minutes.
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Other times, or a whole week
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