9pm to 5am Is How Many Hours?
Hours and minutes between two clock times — overnight included — plus adding or subtracting hh:mm durations.
Result
From 9:00 in the evening to 5:00 the next morning is exactly 8 hours. This page opens the duration calculator with 21:00 and 05:00 preloaded — and because the end time is earlier on the clock, the tool automatically counts the span across midnight instead of producing a nonsense negative number.
Night-shift arithmetic is where manual timesheets fail most often. The overnight 9-to-5 counts 3 hours before midnight and 5 after; take a 30-minute unpaid break at, say, 1am and the worked total becomes 7.5 hours — 7:30 in hh:mm. Enter your break in minutes and the calculator deducts it for you.
The result also appears as decimal hours and total minutes, ready for payroll systems and night-differential calculations. Any other overnight pair — 22:00 to 6:00, 23:30 to 7:15 — works the same way, locally in your browser.