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  2. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    Subdivisions of the day include the hour (1/24 of a day), which is further subdivided into minutes and seconds. The second is the international standard unit (SI unit) for science. Celestial sphere-based: as in sidereal time, where the apparent movement of the stars and constellations across the sky is used to calculate the length of a year.

  3. 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)

  4. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    minutes (1 hs = 1 min 40 s = 100 s) 2 hs (3 min 20 s): The average length of the most popular YouTube videos as of January 2017 [15] 5.55 hs (9 min 12 s): The longest videos in the above study 7.1 hs (11 m 50 s): The time for a human walking at average speed of 1.4 m/s to walk 1 kilometre 10 3: kilosecond ks minutes, hours, days (1 ks = 16 min ...

  5. Millisecond - Wikipedia

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    A millisecond (from milli-and second; symbol: ms) is a unit of time in the International System of Units equal to one thousandth (0.001 or 10 −3 or 1 / 1000) of a second [1] [2] or 1000 microseconds.

  6. Second - Wikipedia

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    1 minute, 40 seconds 10 −3 s ms millisecond: 10 3 s ks kilosecond 16 minutes, 40 seconds 10 −6 s μs microsecond: 10 6 s Ms megasecond 1 week, 4 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes, 40 seconds 10 −9 s ns nanosecond: 10 9 s Gs gigasecond 31.7 years 10 −12 s ps picosecond: 10 12 s Ts terasecond 31,700 years 10 −15 s fs femtosecond: 10 15 s Ps ...

  7. Unix time - Wikipedia

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    JavaScript provides a Date library which provides and stores timestamps in milliseconds since the Unix epoch and is implemented in all modern desktop and mobile web browsers as well as in JavaScript server environments like Node.js. [24] Filesystems designed for use with Unix-based operating systems tend to use Unix time.

  8. Microsecond - Wikipedia

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    A microsecond is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one millionth (0.000001 or 10 −6 or 1 ⁄ 1,000,000) of a second.Its symbol is μs, sometimes simplified to us when Unicode is not available.

  9. Minute - Wikipedia

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    Minute is a unit of time defined as equal to 60 seconds. [1] One hour contains 60 minutes. [2] Although not a unit in the International System of Units (SI), the minute is accepted for use in the SI. [1] The SI symbol for minutes is min (without a dot). The prime symbol ′ is also sometimes used informally to denote minutes. [3]