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  2. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    1.44 minutes, or 86.4 seconds. Also marketed as a ".beat" by the Swatch corporation. moment: 1/40 solar hour (90 s on average) Medieval unit of time used by astronomers to compute astronomical movements, length varies with the season. [4] Also colloquially refers to a brief period of time. centiday 0.01 d (1 % of a day) 14.4 minutes, or 864 ...

  3. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    More exactly, the mean solar day is 86.400 002 ks due to tidal braking, and increasing at the rate of approximately 2 ms/century; to correct for this time standards like UTC use leap seconds with the interval described as "a day" on them being most often 86.4 ks exactly by definition but occasionally one second more or less so that every day ...

  4. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    One microcentury is 52 minutes and 35.7 seconds ‍ — one millionth of a century. ... A nanocentury is one-billionth of a century or approximately 3.156 seconds.

  5. Second - Wikipedia

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    Some common units of time in seconds are: a minute is 60 seconds; an hour is 3,600 seconds; a day is 86,400 seconds; a week is 604,800 seconds; a year (other than leap years) is 31,536,000 seconds; and a century averages 3,155,695,200 seconds; with all of the above excluding any possible leap seconds.

  6. Metric time - Wikipedia

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    A kè is about 14.4 minutes, or 14 minutes 24 seconds. In the 19th century, ... Unix time gives date and time as the number of seconds since January 1, ...

  7. How Long Will It Take to Ride a Century? - AOL

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    Consider starting with a metric century, which is about 62 miles, if you haven’t done a ride that long yet. Even at 100 kilometers, you’ll be riding longer than 87 percent of your fellow ...

  8. Julian year (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    For example, the future epoch J2100.0 will be exactly 36,525 days (one Julian century) from J2000.0 at 12:00 TT on January 1, 2100 (the dates will still agree because the Gregorian century 2000–2100 will have the same number of days as a Julian century).

  9. Donald Trump's mother: From a Scottish island to New ... - AOL

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    According to genealogist Bill Lawson, surnames are a relatively recent phenomenon on the islands and official records only go back to the early decades of the 19th Century.