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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 in 5 minutes?
There are 60 seconds in a minute. 60 seconds multiplied by 5 Minutes equals 300 seconds
What does the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month refer to?
November 11th at 11am.
As opposed to chronos time, which is chronological, mechanical time, kyrios refers to a moment of time, non-sequential, and is best understood in terms of experience. If you have ever said "man, that time went by really fast" or "that work day took FOREVER" you have an analogy for kyrios time.
What are the units of measurement in old time?
Body parts: the cubit (inside elbow to finger tip), the foot, the stride, the span (finger tip to finger tip)
the inch was the thumb length
the british stone was just that, a stone.
A cup was what you could "cup" in your two hands.
A millisecond is defined as 1/1,000th of a second. Therefore there is 1/1000th of a second in a millisecond.
6 hours is your answer because half 24=12 and half 12 = 6 and that is your answer
AM is ante meridian - After 12Midnight and before 12 Noon.
PM is post meridian - After 12 Noon and Before 12 Midnight.
What instruments did the Elizabethans use to tell the time?
Instruments commonly used by Elizabethans to tell time included sundials, hourglasses, and candle clocks. Sundials relied on the position of the sun's shadow to indicate the time, while hourglasses measured time by the flow of sand, and candle clocks used the time it took for a marked candle to burn down.
How many days are there in a week?
There are 7 days in a week. The 7 days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Why there is no year zero in our calendar?
Our system of numbering the year originated from the birth of Jesus Christ (hence the terms BC - Before Christ and AD - Anno Domini - in the year of Our Lord). This system did not become widespread for many years after Jesus ans so the years had to be counted back to when iit was believed he was born. However, there were two mistakes in the calculation; first, there was no year zero included (so the year before 1 AD was 1 BC) and, in any case, the year which they took to be Christ's birth was also wrong, his actually being born in or around what we call 4 BC. But the calendar, with its errors, stuck - and we have been using it ever since over 2000 years later.
How many minutes are there in four years?
525600 minutes in one year. You do the math. Multiply by 4.
How many hours in 400 minutes?
WHEN TRYING TO FIND OUT HOURS, YOU DIVIDE BY NUMBER OF MINUTES BY 60. SO 400 MINUTES EQUALS 6 HOURS AND 40 MINUTES
Who decided how much time equals a second a minute an hour?
Although history never defined a singular person, it is widely believed the Babylonians divided time into increments using a base system of 60, creating the basis for modern time as well still know it.
------- The Egyptians had subdivided daytime and nighttime into twelve hours each since at least 2000 BC, hence their hours varied seasonally. The Hellenistic astronomers Hipparchus (c. 150 BC) and Ptolemy (c. AD 150) subdivided the day sexagesimally and also used a mean hour (1/24 day), but did not use distinctly named smaller units of time. Instead they used simple fractions of an hour.
The day was subdivided sexagesimally, that is by 1/60, by 1/60 of that, by 1/60 of that, etc., to at least six places after the sexagesimal point (a precision of less than 2 microseconds) by the Babylonians after 300 BC, but they did not sexagesimally subdivide smaller units of time. For example, six fractional sexagesimal places of a day was used in their specification of the length of the year, although they were unable to measure such a small fraction of a day in real time. As another example, they specified that the mean synodic month was 29;31,50,8,20 days (four fractional sexagesimal positions), which was repeated by Hipparchus and Ptolemy sexagesimally, and is currently the mean synodic month of the Hebrew calendar, though restated as 29 days 12 hours 793 halakim (where 1 hour = 1080 halakim). The Babylonians did not use the hour, but did use a double-hour, a time-degree lasting four of our minutes, and a barleycorn lasting 3? of our seconds (the helek of the modern Hebrew calendar).
In 1000, the Muslim scholar al-Biruni gave the times of the new moons of specific weeks as a number of days, hours, minutes, seconds, thirds, and fourths after noon Sunday. In 1267, the medieval scientist Roger Bacon stated the times of full moons as a number of hours, minutes, seconds, thirds, and fourths (horae, minuta, secunda, tertia, and quarta) after noon on specified calendar dates. Although a third for 1/60 of a second remains in some languages, for example Polish (tercja) and Arabic (?????), the modern second is subdivided decimally.
The first attempt at creating a clock that could measure time in seconds was created by Taqi al-Din at the Istanbul observatory of al-Din between 1577-1580. He called it the "observational clock" in his In the Nabik Tree of the Extremity of Thoughts, where he described it as "a mechanical clock with three dials which show the hours, the minutes, and the seconds." He used it as an astronomical clock, particularly for measuring the right ascension of the stars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second
What are the benefits of time management?
Your life will be calmer and more enjoyable. In business it identifies productive behaviour and can help with making profits.
72 hours are how many days in a week?
There are 24 hours in one day. 24 x 3 = 72 That equals three days. One day is 24 hours, so 72 hours is three days.
What time is sunset on October 11 2008 in Pahrump nv?
Sunset in Pahrump, NV, 36° 27.241' N; 115° 24.112' W, on October 11 2008 was at 18:09:57 PDT. Depending on the viewer's exact location the local apparent sunset would be somewhat earlier due to the intervening No Pah mountain range. -Dicko@wormhole.com-
