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  2. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    100 days, roughly equivalent to 1/4 of a year (91.25 days). In Chinese tradition "bǎi rì" is the hundredth day after one's birth, also called Baby's 100 Days Celebration. semester: 18 weeks: A division of the academic year. [6] Literally "six months", also used in this sense. lunar year: 354.37 d: year: 12 mo: 365 or 366 d: common year: 365 d

  3. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    In most cases, the base unit is seconds or years. Prefixes are not usually used with a base unit of years. Therefore, it is said "a million years" instead of "a megayear". Clock time and calendar time have duodecimal or sexagesimal orders of magnitude rather than decimal, e.g., a year is 12 months, and a minute is 60 seconds.

  4. 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)

  5. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    The biggest Terekeme 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).

  6. Hindu units of time - Wikipedia

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    The division of a year for each is twelve 30-day months or 360 days, where a day is divided into a 12-hour day proper and 12-hour night. [22] A 30-day month amounts to four 7-day weeks with an extra 8th day every two weeks (48-week year).

  7. When and what is the winter solstice? Things to know about ...

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    The days are short and the nights are long. That can only mean one thing: The winter solstice is coming. The first day of winter for the northern hemisphere of Earth will begin on Dec. 21 at ...

  8. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    100 meters – the distance a very fast human can run in about 10 seconds; 100.584 meters – length of a Canadian football field between the goal lines (110 yards) 91.5 meters – 137 meters – length of a soccer field [119] 105 meters – length of football pitch (UEFA stadium categories 3 and 4) 105 meters – length of a typical football field

  9. Year - Wikipedia

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    In this calendar, a common year is 365 days (8760 hours, 525 600 minutes or 31 536 000 seconds), and a leap year is 366 days (8784 hours, 527 040 minutes or 31 622 400 seconds). The 400-year civil cycle of the Gregorian calendar has 146 097 days and hence exactly 20 871 weeks.