Kilosecond

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

Category:Units of time