It's about time

Originally posted by coquette
12:30 p.m.

We should probably stop messing around and make every second count:

31,536 000 in an "ordinary" calendar year" (thirty one million, five hundred and thirty six thousand seconds/each year)

31,622,400 in a "Leap" Calendar Year
31,556,000 (rounded) in earth's orbital revolution or 12,
(January second, February second, March second, April second, ...)

60sec x 60min x 24hr x 365 days = number of seconds in a calendar year, (31,536,000)
60sec x 60min x 24hr x 366 days = number of seconds in a leap year, (31,622,400)

Number of seconds in a Julian year (365.25 days) = 31,557,600
Number of seconds in a standard SI year = 31,556,926 (31556925.9747 set to year 1900)

By Multiplication;
60 minutes × 60 seconds = 3600 seconds in every hour
3600 seconds × 24 hours = 86,400 seconds in each day
86,400 × 365 days = 31,536,000 seconds in every year (or 31,622,400 in a leap year of 366 days)

Technically though, 1 year = 365.242199 days, so there are in reality (365.242199 × 86,400)= 31,556,925.9936 seconds in one year (31,556,926 seconds).

That is the true length of one year - and you may say your calendar doesn't show another .242199 days, but that is the time it takes for the Earth to make one complete revolution around the Sun. However, your calendar is not wrong. The Earth rotates 360 degrees in precisely 24 hours, yes, but as it moves around the Sun, the angle is slightly different and needs to turn one more degree to complete a "solar day".

By the Gregorian Year:
The Gregorian calendar uses a year 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes and 12 seconds long. This is equal to 31,556,952 seconds.

The Lighter Side

As a trick question.. The answer would be 12 or 24 "seconds" in a year :
2nd of JAN, 2nd of FEB, and so forth = 12 (2nd of each month)
22nd Jan , 22nd Feb till 22nd Dec = 24 (2nd and 22nd of each month).

Note: Hope GBS agrees but, seriously, he prolly don't.
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Originally posted by hakima
It's 4:20 somewhere in the Universe...

that's a rather earthly centered view...How do we know the way time is measrured everyweher in the universe?

Originally posted by Ponderable
that's a rather earthly centered view...How do we know the way time is measrured everyweher in the universe?

1 day @ a time

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
31,536 000 in an "ordinary" calendar year" (thirty one million, five hundred and thirty six thousand seconds/each year)

31,622,400 in a "Leap" Calendar Year
31,556,000 (rounded) in earth's orbital revolution or 12,
(January second, February second, March second, April second, ...)

60sec x 60min x 24hr x 365 days = number of seconds in a calen ...[text shortened]... of each month)
22nd Jan , 22nd Feb till 22nd Dec = 24 (2nd and 22nd of each month).

Nice paste.

Originally posted by HandyAndy

Nice paste.

You always say the nicest things.