How many hours is 6pm to 2am?
6pm to 2am
8 hours
6pm to 2am is 8 hours, or 480 minutes, ending the next day.
- Hours and minutes
- 8 hours
- Total minutes
- 480
- Decimal hours
- 8
- With a 30-minute unpaid break
- 7 hours 30 minutes (7.5 decimal hours)
- Crosses midnight
- Yes, it ends the next day
- 24-hour notation
- 18:00 to 02:00 (next day)
- Before and after midnight
- 6 hours before, 2 hours after
About this shift
The shift starts in the evening and runs past midnight, so it ends in the small hours on the next calendar day. 6 hours fall before midnight and 2 hours after it.
Five 8-hour shifts make 40 hours a week. With a 30-minute unpaid break each day, the paid total is 37 hours 30 minutes.
If you take a 30-minute unpaid break, 7 hours 30 minutes remain, which a timesheet in decimal hours shows as 7.5. 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: 18:00 and 02:00.
- The end time is earlier on the clock than the start, so add 24 hours to it. 02:00 becomes 26:00.
- Subtract. 26:00 − 18:00 = 8:00, which is 8 hours.
- For minutes, 8 × 60 = 480. For decimal hours, 480 ÷ 60 = 8.
- With the break, 480 − 30 = 450 minutes, or 7 hours 30 minutes.
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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