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  2. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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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

  3. Metric time - Wikipedia

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    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)

  4. Time standard - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. Why Americans shifted, scrapped minutes and changed time ...

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    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.

  7. Time - Wikipedia

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    Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. [1] [2] [3] It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events (or the intervals between them), and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the ...

  8. How Many Work Hours Are In A Year? Convert Your Hourly ... - AOL

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    If you get paid for all 10 holidays, you can work 80 fewer hours per year and get paid for that time. At $25 per hour, that works out to a value of $2,000.

  9. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    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).