The number of seconds in an hour - hour equals to seconds
=
3600 Seconds (s)
Hours
The hour (symbol: «h») is a unit of measurement of time that equals to 60 minutes or 3,600 seconds. Officially this is a non-SI unit, but it can be used in the International System of Units. Abbreviation – «h». An hour in the Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) standard can include a positive and negative leap seconds, which duration equals to 3,601 or 3,599 standard seconds.
Seconds
The second (symbol: «s») is a basic unit of time in the International System of Units, it is an important value of time in the systems the centimeter-gram-second. Second is defined as duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponds to the transition between two hyperfine levels of basic condition of cesium-133 atom. SI prefix is often used for time measurement in fractions of a second: millisecond, microsecond and nanosecond; the measures multiples of the second which are not included in the International System of Units – minutes, hours, days, years, etc. are widely used at the moment.
Conversion of time units
The basic units of time | |
Day | |
Hour | h |
Microsecond | |
Millisecond | |
Minute | min |
Month | |
Second | s |
Week | |
Year | |
Other measures | |
Attosecond | as |
Century | |
Decade | |
Femtosecond | fs |
Fortnight | |
Leap Year | |
Mean year | |
Millennium | |
Nanosecond | |
Novennial | |
Octennial | |
Picosecond | ps |
Quindecennial | |
Quinquennial | |
Septennial | |
Shake | |
Sidereal day | |
Sidereal hour | |
Sidereal year | |
Synodic month | |
Tropical year |
The basic units of time | |
Day | |
Hour | h |
Microsecond | |
Millisecond | |
Minute | min |
Month | |
Second | s |
Week | |
Year | |
Other measures | |
Attosecond | as |
Century | |
Decade | |
Femtosecond | fs |
Fortnight | |
Leap Year | |
Mean year | |
Millennium | |
Nanosecond | |
Novennial | |
Octennial | |
Picosecond | ps |
Quindecennial | |
Quinquennial | |
Septennial | |
Shake | |
Sidereal day | |
Sidereal hour | |
Sidereal year | |
Synodic month | |
Tropical year |