nversion-website.Hour conversions
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About hour
The hour is a unit of time equal to 3,600 seconds (1 h = 3,600 s), the base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI). At irregular intervals, the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) time scale is adjusted with leap seconds in order to keep the UTC time scale close to mean solar time. On these occasions, one hour has 3,599 or 3,601 seconds.
One hour (h) is also equal to 3,600 × 103 milliseconds (ms) (an SI unit of time), or 60 minutes (min) or 1/24 days (d), which are non-SI units of time but accepted for use along with other SI units.
- One hour (h) is equal to 60 minutes
- A half of an hour (half-hour) is equal to 30 minutes
- A quarter of an hour (quarter-hour) is equal to 15 minutes
The hours are commonly used throughout the world for timekeeping. Times of this magnitude (i.e., on the hour time scale) can be measured by using a clock.
Symbol: h
Plural: hours
Also known as: stound
Hour conversions: a compehensive list with conversions from hours to other (metric, imperial, or customary) time measurement units is shown below.
- hour to attosecond (h to as)
- hour to century
- hour to day (h to d)
- hour to decade
- hour to femtosecond (h to fs)
- hour to leap year (366 days) (h to leap y)
- hour to lustrum
- hour to microsecond (h to μs)
- hour to millennium
- hour to millisecond (h to ms)
- hour to minute (h to min)
- hour to month (30 days) (h to mo)
- hour to month (31 days) (h to mo)
- hour to nanosecond (h to ns)
- hour to picosecond (h to ps)
- hour to second (h to s)
- hour to week
- hour to year (365 days) (h to y)