It’s Time to Learn How to Tell the Time in English
Telling the time in English is more complicated than just reading some numbers from the clock…
What Time Is It? How to Tell Time in English
Units of Time
- 1 aeon = ~1 billion years (in astronomy)
- 1 millennium = 1000 years
- 1 century = 100 years
- 1 decade = 10 years
- 1 lustrum = 5 years
- 1 year = 12 months ≈ 365 days (366 days in leap years)
- 1 month ≈ 28 to 31 days ≈ 4 weeks
- 1 fortnight = 14 days = 2 weeks
- 1 week = 7 days
- 1 day = 24 hours
- 1 hour = 60 minutes
- 1 minute = 60 seconds
- 1 second = SI base unit of time
- 1 millisecond = 1/1,000 second
- 1 microsecond = 1/1,000,000 second
- 1 nanosecond = 1/1,000,000,000 second
- 1 picosecond = 1/1,000,000,000,000 of a second
- 1 femtosecond = 1/1,000,000,000,000,000 of a second
- 1 attosecond = 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000 of a second
- 1 Planck time = smallest measurable unit of time
Learn to Talk About the Time of Day
Frequency
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