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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.
9,511 Questions
How many seconds are in sixty minutes?
3600 seconds There are 60 seconds in a minute, and 60 minutes in an hour. That's 60 x 60 or 602 or 3600 seconds.
I was thinking that this is all really some weird dream or something this life.
When is an instrument said to be dead-beat?
The drum is said to be a dead-beat instrument. This is because many people believe that it is over used.
What year does the myan calendar end in?
2012 but there are later dates in the future that are not on the actual calendar.
Why is it convenient to measure time using 24 hours in a day not 23 or 25?
It is the most convenient number to choose because it is not a prime number.
What is the maximum possible Mondays in one month?
5 mondays however this only applies on earth, depending on the planets orbit there could be more, for example: Saturn has an orbit of 10 759 earth days in a year, compared to earths 365 1/2 days per year. So taking into account there are 12 months in a "year" there are 896.58333333 days in a month. Therefore there can be over 128 "mondays in a month"
What are minute and seconds are in degrees?
A degree is 60 minutes or 3600 seconds, much like the relationship between them and an hour.
No, it's neither 12AM nor 12PM. Those are improper terms.
The abbreviations AM and PM stand for Ante Meridiem (incorrect: the correct word is "Meridian") and Post Meridiem (incorrect; "Meridian" is correct), respectively. The terms ante and post mean before and after. The term meridiem (incorrect; "Meridian" is correct) refers to when the sun is at the middle of its arc across the sky.
Nominally the sun is at its meridiem (incorrect; "Meridian" is correct) at noon. Since it is *at* its meridiem this is neither before nor after the meridiem (incorrect; "Meridian" is correct) . It *is* the meridiem (incorrect; "Meridian" is correct) .
Likewise, midnight is neither 12 AM nor 12 PM. It is equally far from both. It is simply 12 midnight.
The military clock is better than the civilian clock for many reasons. One is that (it) eliminates the complexity of specifically accounting for whether a time is before of ("or") after midnight. On the military clock noon is read as 1200 hours, and midnight is read as 2400 hours.
