Time is an interesting concept and we all are very familiar with it and know about it. However, the measurement of time requires some specification of units. There are several different units of time and they are used accordingly, mostly based on certain circumstances.
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What Is Time?
Time is defined as the continued progress of existence in the past, present and future. Using the unit of time one can measure the existence of events. Following are the most commonly used units of time:
- Second
- Minute
- Hour
SI Unit of Time
The SI unit of time is the second, which has been further accurately defined as “the time interval equal to 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom (13th CGPM, 1967).” In any case, the unit second is often represented as s or sec.
Popular Time Units
Some of the common and widely used units include minute, hour, day, week, month and year. If we are considering long durations of time, multiple years are also used to mark a certain time frame. It can be, a decade which is equal to 10 years, a century which is equal to 100 years, a millennium which equals 1,000 years, and a mega-annum which is about 1,000,000 years.
| Units of Time | |
| minute | 60 seconds |
| hour | 60 minutes, or 3,600 seconds |
| day | 24 hours, or 86,400 seconds |
| week | 7 days, or 604,800 seconds |
| month | 28-31 days, or 2,419,200-2,678.400 seconds |
| year | 365.25 days, or about 31,557,600 seconds |
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