To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 104 seconds and 105 seconds (2.78 hours and 27.8 hours). See also times of other orders of magnitude.

  • Shorter times
  • 10 000 seconds = 2.77 hours
  • 28 600 seconds = 8 hours -- one work day in most Western countries. Also most people's daily need for sleep
  • 36 000 seconds = 10 hours -- one work day in ancient Egypt, according to the oldest definition of an hour
  • 10.36 hours -- half life of erbium-165
  • 86 164 seconds = 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds -- time for Earth's rotation around its axis
  • 86 400 seconds = one day = 24 hours
  • 100 000 seconds = 27.8 hours
Longer times