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  2. 24-hour clock - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, some bus and train timetables show 00:00 as departure time and 24:00 as arrival time. Legal contracts often run from the start date at 00:00 until the end date at 24:00. While the 24-hour notation unambiguously distinguishes between midnight at the start (00:00) and end (24:00) of any given date, there is no commonly accepted ...

  3. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    The Jiffy is the amount of time light takes to travel one femtometre (about the diameter of a nucleon). The Planck time is the time that light takes to travel one Planck length. The TU (for time unit) is a unit of time defined as 1024 μs for use in engineering. The svedberg is a time unit used for sedimentation rates (usually

  4. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    1 ms: The time for a neuron in the human brain to fire one impulse and return to rest [13] 4–8 ms: The typical seek time for a computer hard disk: 10 −2: centisecond cs One hundredth of one second 1.6667 cs: The period of a frame at a frame rate of 60 Hz. 2 cs: The cycle time for European 50 Hz AC electricity

  5. Time standard - Wikipedia

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    As such it may differ from UTC(USNO) by a few hundred nanoseconds, [16] which in turn may differ from official UTC by as much as 26 nanoseconds. [15] Conversions for UT1 and TT rely on published difference tables which as of 2022 are specified to 10 microseconds and 0.1 nanoseconds respectively.

  6. Valid time - Wikipedia

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    The term valid time was coined by Richard T. Snodgrass and his doctoral student (1986). [8]As of December 2011, ISO/IEC 9075, Database Language SQL:2011 Part 2: SQL/Foundation included clauses in table definitions to define "application-time period tables" (that is, valid-time tables).

  7. Metric time - Wikipedia

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    Metric time is the measure of time intervals using the metric system. The modern SI system defines the second as the base unit of time, and forms multiples and submultiples with metric prefixes such as kiloseconds and milliseconds. Other units of time – minute, hour, and day – are accepted for use with SI, but are not part of it

  8. Everything to Know About 'Big Brother' Season 26 - AOL

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    CBS has yet to announce if Big Brother 26 will have all-new houseguests, returning houseguests, or a combination of the two. We last saw BB alumni return in the second All-Stars season back in 2020.

  9. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    The time between each gēng is 1 ⁄ 10 of a day, making a gēng 2.4 hours—or 2 hours 24 minutes—long. The 5 gēngs in the night are numbered from one to five: yì gēng ( 一 更 ) (alternately chū gēng ( 初更 ) for "initial watch"); èr gēng ( 二更 ); sān gēng ( 三更 ); sì gēng ( 四更 ); and wǔ gēng ( 五更 ).