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  2. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    100 days, roughly equivalent to 1/4 of a year (91.25 days). In Chinese tradition "bǎi rì" is the hundredth day after one's birth, also called Baby's 100 Days Celebration. semester: 18 weeks: A division of the academic year. [6] Literally "six months", also used in this sense. lunar year: 354.37 d: year: 12 mo: 365 or 366 d: common year: 365 d

  3. Earth's rotation - Wikipedia

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    The average of the true solar day during the course of an entire year is the mean solar day, which contains 86,400 mean solar seconds. Currently, each of these seconds is slightly longer than an SI second because Earth's mean solar day is now slightly longer than it was during the 19th century due to tidal friction. The average length of the ...

  4. Sidereal year - Wikipedia

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    The sidereal year is 20 min 24.5 s longer than the mean tropical year at J2000.0 (365.242 190 402 ephemeris days). [ 1 ] At present, the rate of axial precession corresponds to a period of 25,772 years, [ 3 ] so sidereal year is longer than tropical year by 1,224.5 seconds (20 min 24.5 s, ~365.24219*86400/25772).

  5. Sidereal time - Wikipedia

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    The ERA may be converted to other units; for example, the Astronomical Almanac for the Year 2017 tabulated it in degrees, minutes, and seconds. [12] As an example, the Astronomical Almanac for the Year 2017 gave the ERA at 0 h 1 January 2017 UT1 as 100° 37′ 12.4365″. [13]

  6. 360-day calendar - Wikipedia

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    The 360-day calendar is a method of measuring durations used in financial markets, in computer models, in ancient literature, and in prophetic literary genres.. It is based on merging the three major calendar systems into one complex clock [citation needed], with the 360-day year derived from the average year of the lunar and the solar: (365.2425 (solar) + 354.3829 (lunar))/2 = 719.6254/2 ...

  7. ΔT (timekeeping) - Wikipedia

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    Analysis of layering in fossil mollusc shells from 70 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period, shows that there were 372 days a year, and thus that the day was about 23.5 hours long then. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Based on geological studies of tidal rhythmites , the day was 21.9±0.4 hours long 620 million years ago and there were 13.1±0.1 ...

  8. List of weather records - Wikipedia

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    The warmest day on record for the entire planet was 22 July 2024 when the highest global average temperature was recorded at 17.16 °C (62.89 °F). [20] The previous record was 17.09 °C (62.76 °F) set the day before on 21 July 2024. [ 20 ]

  9. Year - Wikipedia

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    In this calendar, a common year is 365 days (8760 hours, 525 600 minutes or 31 536 000 seconds), and a leap year is 366 days (8784 hours, 527 040 minutes or 31 622 400 seconds). The 400-year civil cycle of the Gregorian calendar has 146 097 days and hence exactly 20 871 weeks.