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  2. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    Earth-based: the day is based on the time it takes for the Earth to rotate on its own axis, as observed on a sundial [citation needed]. Units originally derived from this base include the week (seven days), and the fortnight (14 days). Subdivisions of the day include the hour (1/24 of a day), which is further subdivided into minutes and seconds ...

  3. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    3.6 ks: The length of one hour (h), the time for the minute hand of a clock to cycle once around the face, approximately 1/24 of one mean solar day 7.2 ks (2 h): The typical length of feature films 35.73 ks: the rotational period of planet Jupiter, fastest planet to rotate 38.0196 ks: rotational period of Saturn, second shortest rotational period

  4. Microsecond - Wikipedia

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    2.68 microseconds – the amount of time subtracted from the Earth's day as a result of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. [2] 3.33564095 microseconds – the time taken by light to travel one kilometre in a vacuum. 5.4 microseconds – the time taken by light to travel one mile in a vacuum (or radio waves point-to-point in a near vacuum).

  5. Orders of magnitude (frequency) - Wikipedia

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    Once every one million years 10 −12: 1 picohertz (pHz) 1.23 pHz Precession of the Earth's axis (about every 25,700 years) 10 −11: 10 pHz ~31.71 pHz: Once per millennium 10 −10: 100 pHz ~317.1 pHz: Once per century 10 −9: 1 nanohertz (nHz) ~1 nHz: Once per generation (about every 30 years) ~2.9 nHz: Average solar cycle (about every 11 ...

  6. Metric time - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. One Crowded Hour - Wikipedia

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    "One Crowded Hour" is a song by Australian indie rock band Augie March written by Glenn Richards. The song was released in April 2006 as the first single released from their third studio album, Moo, You Bloody Choir .

  8. Leap second - Wikipedia

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    Screenshot of the UTC clock from time.gov during the leap second on 31 December 2016.. A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to accommodate the difference between precise time (International Atomic Time (TAI), as measured by atomic clocks) and imprecise observed solar time (), which varies due to irregularities and long-term ...

  9. Earth anthem - Wikipedia

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    In November of 2010, the UFO religion Universe People's website published an instrumental "New Earth Anthem". [16] In 2012, Andrew Huang wrote a pop song titled "When The Lights Go Down" for WWF-Canada. This Earth Hour anthem contained lyrics such as "Protecting the Earth is our message". [17] [18]