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Time
This category is for questions about the methods humans go about measuring the passage of time. You can also find questions about converting one unit of time to another.
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A month is not as clearly defined as a week, a day, or a year. In other words, any answer will be an approximation, an estimate.
Decide how many days per month you want to calculate, for example 30, or 30.5. Let's say you pick 30. Then multiply 7 (months) x 30 (days/month) x 24 (hours/day) x 60 (minutes/hour) x 60 (seconds/minute).
If you memorize that a day has 86400 seconds, then you can do the calculation somewhat shorter: 7 (months) x 30 (days/month) x 86400 (seconds/day).
For Non Leap Years, here is what we have, if you start on the first of a month, then there are 7 time periods, where seven months = 212 days, which is 18,316,800 (from the 86,400 seconds per day). There are 4 time periods (starting March 1, April 1, May 1, June 1) which have 214 days in seven months: 18,489,600 seconds. There is one time period (July 1 through Jan 31) which has 215 days: 18,576,000 seconds. If your time period contains a February in a Leap Year, then you'd need to add 86,400 seconds to your answer. Over time, on average, there are approx 30.43666... days in a month, which is 213.0567 days or 18,408,096 seconds, for seven months.
How many years is 2.4 billion seconds?
Approx 76.05 years. The exact value will depend on the number of leap years in the period, as well as leap seconds.
How many seconds in fifty minutes?
1 minute = 60 seconds so 50 minutes = 50*60 =3000 seconds. Simple!
The numbers of a clock are always in sequential order
Presently students suffer like anything because of the metric system has not been applied both in calculating time and the angle in degrees.
In metric system, with much convenience, multiples of ten have been introduced and so just shifting the decimal would do the manipulation so easily.
But the odd tables in case of counting time would be an usual hindrance for the students.
Each hour would have 60 minutes. So 1.5 has 1.5*60 = 90.0 minutes.
Otherwise 1.5 hour is considered as 1 h and 30 min.
What are calendars based off of?
Calendars are based off of the solar system and how the Earth revolves around the sun.
