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One microfortnight is equal to 1.2096 seconds. [2] This has become a joke in computer science because in the VMS operating system, the TIMEPROMPTWAIT variable, which holds the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realizes that the current value is invalid, is set in microfortnights.
Subdivisions of the day include the hour (1/24 of a day), which is further subdivided into minutes and seconds. The second is the international standard unit (SI unit) for science. Celestial sphere-based: as in sidereal time, where the apparent movement of the stars and constellations across the sky is used to calculate the length of a year.
38.0196 ks: rotational period of Saturn, second shortest rotational period 57.996 ks: one day on planet Neptune. 62.064 ks: one day on Uranus. 86.399 ks (23 h 59 min 59 s): The length of one day with a removed leap second on UTC time scale. Such has not yet occurred. 86.4 ks (24 h): The length of one day of
The second is the International System of Units (SI) unit of time duration. It is also the standard single-unit time representation in many programming languages, most notably C, and part of UNIX/POSIX standards used by Linux, Mac OS X, etc.; to convert fractional days to fractional seconds, multiply the number by 86400.
Munim Raghid, 26, of Ronkonkoma, was busted on animal cruelty charges for the second time in a month, the DA’s office said. Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney.
Snowfall is nothing new in Maine, but usually it's white. The east Maine town of Rumford experienced a rare weather event Tuesday in the form of brown snow, town officials confirmed on Facebook.
One kè was usually defined as 1 ⁄ 100 of a day until 1628, though there were short periods before then where days had 96, 108 or 120 kè. [7] A kè is about 14.4 minutes, or 14 minutes 24 seconds. In the 19th century, Joseph Charles François de Rey-Pailhade endorsed Lagrange’s proposal of using centijours, but abbreviated cé , and ...
From November 2010 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when David Bonderman joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -15.7 percent return on your investment, compared to a 19.2 percent return from the S&P 500.