The number of seconds in the year - years equals to seconds
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31536000 Seconds (s)
Years
A year is a unit of time equal to the period of the Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun. There is no generally accepted designation. The international use abbreviation (for Latin America «annus»), including the English system of measurement – «y» or «yr». The Julian year in astronomy is a unit of time equal to 365.25 days of 86400 seconds (not leap seconds). The word «year» is also used for other periods, for example, academic year and season.
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 |