Convert Units of Time


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How to convert time units using the AddUp calculator

How to convert units in general

Conversions can be done either with the "->" conversion operator or with the equivalent "convert" function. The function has three parameters: a quantity, a unit to convert from and a unit to convert to. Likewise the conversion operator uses three values: the quantity and unit to convert from are placed on the left side of the operator while the unit to convert to goes to the right side.

Time Units

The basic unit of time is the second. All units of time are expressed in terms of this base unit and so measurements can be converted from any one of the following units to any other.

beat
1/1000 day: 86.4 s
blink
1/100 beat: 0.864 s
century
100 Gregorian years: 3155695200 s
decade
10 Gregorian years: 315569520 s
dy [also: day]
24 hours: 86400 s
hr [also: hour]
60 minutes: 3600 s
millenium
1000 Gregorian years: 31556952000 s
mn [also: minute]
60 seconds: 60 s
mo [also: month]
1/12 Gregorian year: 2629746 s
s [also: sc, second]
Basic unit of time: 1 second
shake
10 nanoseconds: 1e-8 s
svedberg
0.1 picosecond: 1e-13 s
wk [also: week]
7 days: 604800 s
yr [also: year]
Gregorian year (365.2425 days): 31556952 s
yrJulian
Julian year (365.25 days): 31557600 s
yrTrop
Tropical (astronomical) year: 31556925.97474 s

Sample Conversions of Time Units

Convert second to minutes

10 second -> minutes = ~

convert(10; sc; mn) = 0.1666667

Convert second to blinks

10 second -> blinks = 11.574074

convert(10; second; blink) = 11.574074

Convert second to days

10 second -> days = 0.0001157

convert(10; s; day) = 0.0001157

Convert hours to second

10 hours -> second = 36,000

convert(10; hr; sc) = 36,000

Convert weeks to second

10 weeks -> second = 6,048,000

convert(10; wk; second) = 6,048,000

Convert svedbergs to second

10 svedbergs -> second = 10e-13

convert(10; svedberg; second) = 10e-13

Convert years to days

10 years -> days = 3,652.425

convert(10; yr; dy) = 3,652.425

Convert decades to hours

10 decades -> hours = 876,582

convert(10; decade; hr) = 876,582

Convert shakes to svedbergs

10 shakes -> svedbergs = 1,000,000

convert(10; shake; svedberg) = 1,000,000

Convert milleniums to years

10 milleniums -> yr = 10,000

convert(10; millenium; year) = 10,000

Convert weeks to minutes

10 weeks -> mn = 100,800

convert(10; week; minutes) = 100,800

Convert hours to beats

10 hr -> beat = 416.66667

convert(10; hours; beats) = 416.66667