Kilosecond

A kilosecond is 1000 seconds (16 minutes, 40 seconds), so there are 86.4 kiloseconds in a 24 hour day.

Orders of Magnitude

This page lists times between 10³ seconds and 10⁴ seconds (approximately 16.7 minutes to 2.8 hours). A kilosecond is one thousand seconds.

• shorter times
• 2.700 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
• 3.480 kiloseconds = 58 minutes – half-life of nobelium-259
• 3.600 kiloseconds = 60 minutes = one hour
• 5.400 kiloseconds = 90 minutes – the time needed for an object in low earth orbit to circle the earth
• 7.140 kiloseconds = 119 minutes – length of the movie Citizen Kane
• longer times

Other pages

• times of other orders of magnitude
• Hours
• Minutes
• Seconds