How many hours is 5pm to 2pm?
5pm to 2pm
21 hours
5pm to 2pm is 21 hours, or 1,260 minutes, ending the next day.
- Hours and minutes
- 21 hours
- Total minutes
- 1,260
- Decimal hours
- 21
- With a 30-minute unpaid break
- 20 hours 30 minutes (20.5 decimal hours)
- Crosses midnight
- Yes, it ends the next day
- 24-hour notation
- 17:00 to 14:00 (next day)
- Before and after midnight
- 7 hours before, 14 hours after
About this shift
The shift starts in the evening and runs past midnight, so it ends in the afternoon on the next calendar day. 7 hours fall before midnight and 14 hours after it.
21 hours is 9 hours longer than a 12-hour shift. If you worked it as two separate shifts, enter each one on its own line in the hours calculator so each gets its own break.
If you take a 30-minute unpaid break, 20 hours 30 minutes remain, which a timesheet in decimal hours shows as 20.5. The 30 minutes is an example, not a legal rule. Break and overtime rules depend on your contract and where you work. This page gives clock time only.
How the hours are worked out
- Write both times in 24-hour form: 17:00 and 14:00.
- The end time is earlier on the clock than the start, so add 24 hours to it. 14:00 becomes 38:00.
- Subtract. 38:00 − 17:00 = 21:00, which is 21 hours.
- For minutes, 21 × 60 = 1,260. For decimal hours, 1,260 ÷ 60 = 21.
- With the break, 1,260 − 30 = 1,230 minutes, or 20 hours 30 minutes.
Nearby start and end times
Other times, or a whole week
The hours calculator takes your own start and end time for each day, a break per day and an optional hourly rate, and adds up the week. Open the hours calculator