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About 17 minutes. hour: 60 min: deciday 0.1 d (10 % of a day) 2.4 hours, or 144 minutes. One-tenth of a day is 1 dd (deciday), also called "gēng" in traditional Chinese timekeeping. day: 24 h: Longest unit used on stopwatches and countdowns. The SI day is exactly 86 400 seconds. week: 7 d: Historically sometimes also called "sennight". decaday
1.67 minutes (or 1 minute 40 seconds) 10 3: kilosecond: 1 000: 16.7 minutes (or 16 minutes and 40 seconds) 10 6: megasecond: 1 000 000: 11.6 days (or 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds) 10 9: gigasecond: 1 000 000 000: 31.7 years (or 31 years, 252 days, 1 hour, 46 minutes, 40 seconds, assuming that there are 7 leap years in the interval)
The categorisation of the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of time is called periodization. [1] This is a list of such named time periods as defined in various fields of study. These can be divided broadly into prehistorical periods and historical periods (when written records began to be kept).
minutes, hours, days (1 ks = 16 min 40 s = 1,000 s) 1 ks: The record confinement time for antimatter, specifically antihydrogen, in electrically neutral state as of 2011; [16] 1.477 ks: The longest period in which a person has not taken a breath. 1.8 ks: The time slot for the typical situation comedy on television with advertisements included
time interval [3] as an object – part of the time axis limited by two instants. Being an object, it has no value; duration [4] as a quantity characterizing a time interval. [5] As a quantity, it has a value, such as a number of minutes, or may be described in terms of the quantities (such as times and dates) of its beginning and end.
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).
Exactly 141 years ago at high noon, time changed forever in America. In Boston, time moved forward 16 minutes. In Baltimore 6. New Yorkers lost about 4 minutes.
[17] The separator used between date values (year, month, week, and day) is the hyphen, while the colon is used as the separator between time values (hours, minutes, and seconds). For example, the 6th day of the 1st month of the year 2009 may be written as "2009-01-06" in the extended format or as "20090106" in the basic format without ambiguity.