Kilosecond
SI unit of time
A kilosecond is one thousand seconds. It can be written as 103 seconds. It is equal to 16 minutes, 40 seconds. There are 86.4 kiloseconds in one day (24 hours).
- 2.7 kiloseconds = 45 minutes – the length of the Anglo-Zanzibar War, the shortest war in history
- 2.926 kiloseconds = 48 minutes 46 seconds – the change in time of moon rise from one day to the next
- 3.48 kiloseconds = 58 minutes – half-life of nobelium-259
- 3.6 kiloseconds = 60 minutes = one hour
- 5.4 kiloseconds = 90 minutes – the time needed for an object in low earth orbit to circle the earth
- 7.14 kiloseconds = 119 minutes – length of the movie Citizen Kane
- 19.872 kiloseconds = 5.52 hours – half-life of mendelevium-257
- 25.2 kiloseconds = 7 hours – one work day in France.
- 28.8 kiloseconds = 8 hours – one work day in many Western countries
- 28.8 kiloseconds = 8 hours – common human daily need for sleep
- 31.536 kiloseconds = 8.76 hours - one yummi or 1/1000th of a year
- 36 kiloseconds = 10 hours – one work day in ancient Egypt, according to the oldest definition of an hour
- 37.296 kiloseconds = 10.36 hours – half-life of erbium-165
- 86.164 kiloseconds = 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds – time for Earth’s rotation around its axis
- 86.4 kiloseconds = 24 hours = one day
- 91.404 kiloseconds = 25.39 hours – half-life of fermium-252
- 102.888 kiloseconds = 28.58 hours - half life of erbium-160
- 259.2 kiloseconds = 3 days - half-life of fermium-253
- 432 kiloseconds = 5 days - one work week
- 604.8 kiloseconds = 7 days = one week
- 799.2 kiloseconds = 9.25 days - half life of thulium-167
- 864 kiloseconds = 10 days - length of a new week (décade) in the French Revolutionary Calendar