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  2. Hindu units of time - Wikipedia

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    The lifespan of the Devas (gods) lasts for 100 of their years. [21] 24 hours (1 day & night) of Devas = 1 solar year (Sun's two 180-day motions: northern and southern) 30 days (1 month) of Devas = 30 solar years (1 year of Pitris) 12 months (1 year) of Devas = 360 solar years; 100 years (lifespan) of Devas = 36,000 solar years

  3. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    The Jiffy is the amount of time light takes to travel one femtometre (about the diameter of a nucleon). The Planck time is the time that light takes to travel one Planck length. The TU (for time unit) is a unit of time defined as 1024 μs for use in engineering. The svedberg is a time unit used for sedimentation rates (usually

  4. Holocene calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Holocene calendar, also known as the Holocene Era or Human Era (HE), is a year numbering system that adds exactly 10,000 years to the currently dominant (AD/BC or CE/BCE) numbering scheme, placing its first year near the beginning of the Holocene geological epoch and the Neolithic Revolution, when humans shifted from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture and fixed settlements.

  5. Cosmic Calendar - Wikipedia

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    A graphical view of the Cosmic Calendar, featuring the months of the year, days of December, the final minute, and the final second. The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its currently understood age of 13.787 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science.

  6. Calendrical Calculations - Wikipedia

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    Calendrical Calculations is a book on calendar systems and algorithms for computers to convert between them. It was written by computer scientists Nachum Dershowitz and Edward Reingold and published in 1997 by the Cambridge University Press .

  7. Conversion between Julian and Gregorian calendars - Wikipedia

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    Years affected are those which divide by 100 without remainder but do not divide by 400 without remainder (e.g., 1900 and 2100 but not 2000). No guidance is provided about conversion of dates before March 5, -500, or after February 29, 2100 (both being Julian dates).

  8. Decimal time - Wikipedia

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    A Gregorian year, which takes into account the 100 vs. 400 leap year exception rule of the Gregorian calendar, is 365.2425 days (the average length of a year over a 400–year cycle), resulting in 0.1 years being a period of 36.52425 days (3 155 695.2 seconds; 36 days, 12 hours, 34 minutes, 55.2 seconds).

  9. Kalpa (time) - Wikipedia

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    A regular kalpa is approximately 16 million years long (16,798,000 years [16]), and a small kalpa is 1000 regular kalpas, or about 16.8 billion years. [citation needed] Further, a medium kalpa is roughly 336 billion years, the equivalent of 20 small kalpas. [citation needed] A great kalpa is four medium kalpas, [17] or about 1.3 trillion years.